Why should you care about the future? Why should you care about the progress of the people? Since you, who call yourselves anarchists, are sure to en… - Bruno Filippi

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Why should you care about the future? Why should you care about the progress of the people? Since you, who call yourselves anarchists, are sure to engage in a battle that is already lost for you before it has even started, since you will certainly not see the society of which you dream, and even if the people rebel, social conditions would not change for you and your rebellion would have to continue. So what’s the use of going down among a mass that cannot comprehend you since its conditions are such as to render you unintelligible to them? If you are rebel geniuses as you claim, you should not replace Christian self-denial and patriotic servitude with the altruism of the anarchist who sacrifices himself for a future he will not see and this for people who do not comprehend you.

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About Bruno Filippi

Bruno Filippi (March 30, 1900 – September 7, 1919) was an Italian individualist anarchist writer and activist.

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