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Title: Emancipation Author: G. Yvetot Date: 1934 Language: en Topics: Anarchist Encyclopedia Source: Retrieved on November 15, 2011 from http://marxists.org/reference/archive/faure/1934/encyclopedia.htm
Emancipation: Of Latin origin, emancipatio, from the root, mancipium,
slave. To emancipate someone is to remove from him the yoke that
enslaved him, to free him, to set loose from any form of servitude. To
emancipate oneself is to free oneself, to set oneself loose through
one’s own efforts. The word emancipation means the passing from the
state of enslavement to that of freedom, the act of liberation of an
individual, a nation, a class.
The bourgeois give this word a meaning different from that which, for
us, has to do with the famous prophecy of Karl Marx: The emancipation of
the workers will be the task of the workers themselves. This simple and
clear meaning has been adopted by all the true emancipators of the
proletariat, by those who don’t contradict themselves by participating
in electoral politics after having proclaimed the doctrine of auto-
emancipation.
All anarchist propaganda is aimed at this goal: the economic and social
liberation of individuals, their individual emancipation.
All the propaganda of revolutionary unions is aimed at the same goal in
specifying that they want the complete liberation of the workers, the
collective emancipation of the producers.
Both thus want the complete emancipation of those who are exploited and
enslaved by the capitalist system. Which is to say that they both
identically tend towards a social emancipation that can only end in a
revolution such as has never been seen, since the Commune of 1871 was
defeated and the Russian Revolution was only able to arrive at the
Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Advocating libertarian education, guiding the working masses of the
cities, the sea and the fields to administer themselves through
agreements is to create a popular mentality appropriate to the concept
of a free society of emancipated producers. It means training a
generation of individuals capable of organizing a free life for free
men.
We think that it is thus that the social emancipation of all should be
conceived. But in order to emancipate others it is indispensable to
first emancipate oneself, by ridding oneself of all the prejudices
concerning hierarchy, discipline, etc, that have nothing to do with
Freedom, Accord, and Union for Life.
— G. Yvetot