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Direct action meant that the goal of any and all of these activities was to provide ways for people to get in touch with their own powers and capacities, to take back the power of naming themselves and their lives. It was to be distinguished from more conventional political activity even in a democratic system. Instead of attempting to make change by forming interest groups to pressure politicians, anarchists insisted that we learn to think and act for ourselves by joining together in organizations in which our experience, our perception, and our activity can guide and make the change. Knowledge does not precede experience, it flows from it: We begin by deciding to work, and through working, we learn ... We will learn how to live in libertarian communism by living in it. People learn how to be free only by exercising freedom: We are not going to find ourselves ... with people ready-made for the future ... Without the continued exercise of their faculties, there will be no free people ... The external revolution and the internal revolution presuppose one another, and they must be simultaneous in order to be successful.

~ Martha A. Ackelsberg

Martha A. Ackelsberg Anarchism Feminism

Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. Individual sovereignty is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic rights to which all humans are born. Yet Spanish anarchists were firmly rooted in the communalist-anarchist tradition. For them, freedom was fundamentally a social product: the fullest expression of individuality and of creativity can be achieved only in and through community. As Carmen Conde (a teacher who was also active in Mujeres Libres) wrote, describing the relationship of individuality and community: I and my truth; I and my faith ... And I for you, but without ever ceasing to be me, so that you can always be you. Because I don' t exist without your existence, but my existence is also indispensable to yours.

~ Martha A. Ackelsberg

Martha A. Ackelsberg Anarchism Feminism Spain Spanish Anarchists
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