Note 74 — Chapter VIII
Eleanor Marx Aveling translation
In passing, we may remark that it is in the name of freedom of speech that the Anarchists claim to be admitted to Socialist Congresses. Yet this is the opinion of the French official journal of the Anarchists upon these Congresses:—"The Anarchists may congratulate themselves that some of their number attended the Troyes Congress. Absurd, motiveless, and senseless as an Anarchist Congress would be, just as logical is it to take advantage of Socialist Congresses in order to develop our ideas there."—La Révolte, 6-12 January, 1889. May not we also, in the name of freedom, ask the "companions" to leave us alone?