luch quoted Making Sense of Anarchism by Davide Turcato
[From the Back Cover:] Davide Turcato makes history's relevance dynamically clear. Through a biographical account …
"[anarchists and marxists participating in the International] each ultimately did the same: they all tried to force events rather than relying upon the force of events … [f]or Malatesta what killed the International was not persecution, or personal controversies, or the way it was organized: it was that both marxists and anarchists tried to impose their program on the International, and in this struggle for hegemony they prevented the International from a slower maturation that would have more appropriately created the right conditions for change, by uplifting the minds and building up the necessary momentum."
— Making Sense of Anarchism by Davide Turcato (Page 20)
I remain somewhat skeptical of mass organizing (more on that in a future read), but i'm interested to see where this and similar analyses go; i always find Malatesta's words worth meditating on, given their lucidity.