Individual reclamation

Individual expropriation, even individual reappropriation (French: reprise individual ) refers to a form of direct action that aims to theft of the property of the wealthy in favor of the poor and was discussed and carried out in the early 20th century, particularly in France, Belgium, Great Britain and Switzerland.

Concept

Pierre -Joseph Proudhon as the founder of anarchism in France came in 1840 in his book Qu 'est - ce que la propriété? ("What is the title ?") Concludes: " Property is theft! " Where he meant by such property, which is the prerequisite for income without work. He turned private ownership of means of production, rental houses, securities and the like the center of his critique of the prevailing political and social conditions in capitalism. This is just like the bourgeois state which is supposed to protect it, to fight directly and immediately, to acquire and replace it with self-organized forms of common.

At the same time Bakunin's idea of ​​propaganda of the deed was in anarchist circles the height of fashion.

Individualist anarchists initiated from this revolutionary idea from the idea to expropriate entrepreneurs, politicians and clerics directly by means of theft, burglary and robbery. The Individual expropriation was considered as resistance to the unjust social order perceived, might resist a higher natural right to equal distribution of all goods. In debate was forfeited to the violence, the redistribution of goods was considered morally higher quality.

Eric Hobsbawm described in his study of bandits the type of expropriators as revolutionaries who " do not belong to the real world of Robin Hood, but on one or the other way as these help yourself and maybe even take his myth."

Protagonists

Notable supporters of the Individual expropriation and other Illegalisten were Ravachol, Clément Duval and Jules Bonnot in France. In Russia, the Group Besnatschalie ( without authority ) and Tschernoe Znamya (Black Banner ) were notorious for expropriations. In Germanye Max Hoelz and Karl Plättner be counted among them. Even the Spaniards Lucio Urtubia acted long after this ideal.