Political Extremes · Revolutionary Texts
Armed Joy
An Italian court ordered every copy of this destroyed, and Bonanno served eighteen months for writing it. It is an insurrectionary anarchist tract from the Years of Lead arguing against the armed party and for spontaneous revolt, and it is held here because a book a state destroyed is the exact case this archive exists for. Preservation is not endorsement.
- Period
- 1977
- Region
- Italy
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright, and not ours. The author published it free to read at the address above, which remains the version of record. It is held here as an archival exception — the same allowance the other in-copyright entries carry — because a text that exists on one server maintained by one person is one hosting decision away from being gone. No licence is claimed. If the rights holder asks, the text comes down and the citation stays. Alfredo M. Bonanno died in 2023, so the term runs from that date and the monitor can watch it; it is recorded here as authorDied rather than as a guess at a public-domain year, because the year the term expires depends on the jurisdiction and on when the work was first published.
- Source
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
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