We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. - Errico Malatesta

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

We have outlined under a number of headings our objectives and the ideal for which we struggle.

Theoretically "democracy" means popular government; government by all for everybody by the efforts of all. In a democracy the people must be able to say what they want, to nominate the executors of their wishes, to monitor their performance and remove them when they see fit. Naturally this presumes that all the individuals that make up a people are able to form an opinion and express it on all the subjects that interest them. It implies that everyone is politically and economically independent and therefore no-one, to live, would be obliged to submit to the will of others.