Anarchy in Action Quotes

“The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

“The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

“Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

“Of the many possible interpretations of anarchism the one presented here suggests that, far
from being a speculative vision of a future society, it is a description of a mode of human organisation, rooted in the experience of everyday life, which operates side by side with, an in spite of,
the dominant authoritarian trends of our society.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchy in action