Ebook: Memories

Web paper in english (Интернет-издание на английском). — 'Anarchive' "Anarchy is Order!": Principles, Propositions & Discussions for Land and Freedom, 1966. — 19 p.

I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's. I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create

– William Blake.During the 19th century, anarchism has developed as a result of a social current which aims for freedom and happiness. A number of factors since World War I have made this movement, and its ideas, disappear little by little under the dust of history.After the classical anarchism – of which the Spanish Revolution was one of the last representatives – a new kind of resistance was founded in the sixties which claimed to be based (at least partly) on this anarchism. However this resistance is often limited to a few (and even then partly misunderstood) slogans such as 'Anarchy is order', 'Property is theft'.Information about anarchism is often hard to come by, monopolised and intellectual; and therefore visibly disappearing. The anarchive or anarchist archive Anarchy is Order (in short A.O) is an attempt to make the 'principles, propositions and discussions' of this tradition available again for anyone it concerns. We believe that these texts are part of our own heritage. They don t belong to publishers, institutes or specialists.These texts thus have to be available for all anarchists an other people interested. That is one of the conditions to give anarchism a new impulse, to let the new anarchism outgrow the slogans. This is what makes this project relevant for us: we must find our roots to be able to renew ourselves. We have to learn from the mistakes of our socialist past. History has shown that a large number of the anarchist ideas remain standing, even during the most recent social-economic developments.Don't mourn, Organise!Excerpts from an intriguing account by Jan Appel of his experiences during the German Revolution, as a delegate of the KAPD to the Third International and afterwards. Jan Appel provides an important link between the proletarian revolutions of 1917-1919 and the modern day.