Federica Montseny
Federica Montseny
Federica Montseny Mañéwas a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She is also known as a novelist and essayist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 February 1905
CountrySpain
honesty spring heart
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
authority remains
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
america american-athlete comrades spanish
If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
american-athlete blind confirmed forces grandiose knew namely operate
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.