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This chapter contemplates the issue of violence and how to respond to force when one desires to sow ideas of justice, feelings of humanity, respect, and love of neighbor. Mella explores the ways in which the demands of reality make the putting into practice of certain ideals complicated and messy. The chapter also includes a case study of Sancho Alegre, who was accused of an assassination attempt against King Alfonso XIII and was sentenced to death on July 9, 1913. The case study analyzes whether violence is anti-anarchist or if it is a necessary part of anarchism.
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Rafael Sancho Alegre, accused of an assassination attempt against King Alfonso XIII, was sentenced to death on July 9, 1913.
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Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Maura was stabbed on April 12, 1904, by Joaquin Miguel Artal.
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On November 12, 1912, Manuel Pardiñas assassinated Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas.
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José Ingenieros wrote a very important philosophical and social work, El hombre mediocre [The Mediocre Man], in 1913.
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Michele Angiolillo Lombardi was an Italian anarchist who assassinated Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas in 1897. He was subsequently executed in the same year.
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The pseudonym used by Pedro Esteve of the newspaper Cultura Obrera in New York.
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The Carbonari was a secret political society in the early part of the nineteenth century, active in Italy, France, and Spain.
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Jean-Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904) was a French sociologist and criminologist.
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Vilaseca, S.L. (2020). Violence. In: Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44677-2_6
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