PRODUCTION collectivism begins by abolishing private ownership of the means of production ;md immediately reverses itself by returning to the system of remuneration according to work performed ; which means the re-introduction of inequality. Man learns by doing. The social .revolution in different countries and regions will probably try out various methods, and by practical experience learn the best way. The revolution is at the ·same time the opportunity and justification for it. I am not attempting to prophesy what this or that country ·is going to do, what particular course it will follow. Nor do I presume to dictate to the future, to prescribe its mode of conduct.. My purpose is to suggest, in broad outline, the principles which must animate the revo11,1tiont,he general lines of action it shoul~ follow if it is to accomplish its. aim-the reconstruction of society on a foundation of freedom and equality. We know that previous revolutions for the most part failed of their objects, they degenerated into dictatorship and despotism, and thus re-established the old institutions of oppression and exploita- • tion. We know it from past and recent history. .We therefo~ draw the conclusion that the ol<;lway will not do. A new way must be tried in the coming social revolution. What new way? The only one so far known to man : the way of liberty and equality, the way of free communism, of Anarchy. 97 B1blioteca Gino Bianco
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