Freedomfighters (1996)

Héctor Colomé: Durruti

Quotes 

• Durruti : Fascism must be stamped out forever. If necessary, in spite of the government. Perhaps some day soon this government may need the rebel forces to destroy the workers movement. We fight for the revolution. We expect help from no one.

• Durruti : We are not afraid of ruins. Workers built the palaces and cities of Spain and America. We can do it again. The bourgeoisie can destroy their world before abandoning history's stage, but we have a new world in our hearts, a world that is growing every moment. It's growing while I talk you.

• Reportero extranjero : Comrade Durruti. The readers of the New York Herald would like to know if the anarchists act on government orders or if they are in confrontation with it.

  Durruti : Fascism must be stamped out forever. If necessary, in spite of the government. Perhaps some day soon this government may need the rebel forces to destroy the workers movement. We fight for the revolution. We expect help from no one.

  [to a Russian in the room] 

  Durruti : We'll show you Russian bolsheviks how to make a revolution. There is a dictatorship in your country. There are colonels and generals in the Red Army while my column has no leaders and no subordinates. We all have equal rights. We are all soldiers. I too am a simple soldier... The bourgeoisie always tend to identify freedom with chaos. We have organized enthusiasm, not obedience. Every man and woman is responsible to themselves and to the rest. that is our strength. We, the workers, are destined to inherit the earth.

  Reportero extranjero : It will undoubtedly be a very expensive triumph. You will rest on a pile of ruins.

  Durruti : We are not afraid of ruins. Workers built the palaces and cities of Spain and America. We can do it again. The bourgeoisie can destroy their world before abandoning history's stage, but we have a new world in our hearts, a world that is growing every moment. It's growing while I talk you.

• Durruti : Fascism must be stamped out forever. If necessary, in spite of the government. Perhaps some day soon this government may need the rebel forces to destroy the workers movement. We fight for the revolution. We expect help from no one. We'll show you Russian Bolsheviks how to make a revolution. There is a dictatorship in your country. There are colonels and generals in the Red Army while my column has no leaders and no subordinates. We all have equal rights. We are all soldiers. I too am a simple soldier... The bourgeoisie always tend to identify freedom with chaos. We have organized enthusiasm, not obedience. Every man and woman is responsible to themselves and to the rest. that is our strength. We, the workers, are destined to inherit the earth.

• Durruti : We'll show you Russian Bolsheviks how to make a revolution. There is a dictatorship in your country. There are colonels and generals in the Red Army while my column has no leaders and no subordinates. We all have equal rights. We are all soldiers. I too am a simple soldier.