The anarchist movement in Turkey might learn from these experiences

https://anarchistnews.org/content/our-statement-concerning-recent-disclosures-about-revolutionary-anarchist-federation



" . . . I use the word ‘associationist’ as an alternative to the word 
‘communist,’ not because I like pointless new jargon, but because I forsee the 
possibility that the communist anarchists will gradually abandon the term 
‘communist’; it is growing in ambivalence and falling into disrepute as a 
result of Russian ‘communist’ despotism. 
If the term is eventually abandoned this will be a repetition of what happened 
with the word ‘socialist.’ We who, in Italy at least, were the first champions 
of socialism and maintained and still maintain that we are the true socialists 
in the broad and human sense of the word, ended by abandoning the term to avoid 
confusion with the many and various authoritarian and bourgeois deviations of 
socialism. 
Thus too we may have to abandon the term ‘communist’ for fear that our ideal of 
free human solidarity will be confused with the avaricious despotism which has 
for some while triumphed in Russia and which one party, inspired by the Russian 
example, seeks to impose worldwide. Then perhaps we would need another 
adjective to distinguish us from the rest — and this could well be 
associationist or societist or such like, although it seems to me that simply 
to use the term ‘anarchist’ would suffice. . . ."

Malatesta 1924

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