Sonvilier Circular

{{short description|1871 treatise on anti-authoritarianism}} {{Use American English|date=May 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}}

The '''''Sonvilier Circular''''' is an 1871 anti-authoritarian treatise by the Jura Federation, a breakaway faction of the First International. Written during their Sonvilier congress, it claimed that hierarchical politics could not produce social revolution, and that authoritarian organization would never produce an egalitarian society. Rather than form political parties, revolutionary organizations had to model the revolutionary society in miniature.<ref name="Billington2017">{{cite book|last=Billington|first=James H|title=Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Tc7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA354|year=2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-51981-6|pages=353–354}}</ref>

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* {{cite book|last=Cahm|first=Caroline|title=Kropotkin: And the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zk7wTSWT3JUC&pg=PA29|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-89157-8|pages=29–}} * {{Cite book |last1=Graham |first1=Robert |author-link=Robert Graham (historian) |title=We Do Not Fear Anarchy, We Invoke It: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement |date=2015 |language=en |isbn=978-1-84935-211-6 |publisher=AK Press |df=mdy-all }} * {{Cite book |last1=Stafford |first1=David |title=From Anarchism to Reformism: A Study of the Political Activities of Paul Brousse 1870–90 |date=1971 |language=English |isbn=978-0-297-00238-3 |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |location=London |oclc=999801040 |df=mdy-all }}

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== External links ==

* [https://panarchy.org/jura/sonvilier.html Full text] {{in lang|fr}} * [https://panarchy.org/jura/sonvilier.eng.html English translation of full text]

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