Sonvilier Circular
1871 treatise on anti-authoritarianism
The Sonvilier Circular is a 1871 anti-authoritarian treatise by the Jura Federation, a breakaway faction of the First International. Written during their Sonvilier congress, it claimed that hierarchical politics could not produce social revolution, and that authoritarian organization would never produce an egalitarian society. Rather than form political parties, revolutionary organizations had to model the revolutionary society in miniature.[1]
References
- ^ Billington, James H (2017). Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. Taylor & Francis. pp. 353–354. ISBN 978-1-351-51981-6.
Further reading
- Cahm, Caroline (2002). Kropotkin: And the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886. Cambridge University Press. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-521-89157-8.
- Graham, Robert (2015). We Do Not Fear Anarchy, We Invoke It: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement. AK Press. ISBN 978-1-84935-211-6.
- Stafford, David (1971). From Anarchism to Reformism: A Study of the Political Activities of Paul Brousse 1870–90. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-00238-3. OCLC 999801040.
External links
- Full text (in French)
- English translation of full text
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