Maia Ramnath - Decolonizing Anarchism.pdf - Libcom

94 I Ramnath
member "renounces all wealth, promises not ro earn money
or be a parent at any time, repudiates all otht:[ social ties
and obligations, and livers J a life of simplicity and hardship.
(Since neither celibacy nor parenthood was recommended,
presumably Har Dayal was familiar with the work
of Margaret Sanger, perhaps through mutual colleague
Agnes Smedley.) Anyone was free to leave the fraternity at
any time. H
Finally, initiates would pledge to uphold "the eight
principles of Radicalism:' of which the first three concerned
personal development, and the last five a revolution
in social institutions, the latter of which suggest a combination
of anarcho-syndicalism, rationalist secularism, and
contemporary hds. These were :
1. Personal moral development through love
and self-discipline
2. Personal intellectual development through
education and self-culture
3. Personal physical development through hygiene
and eugenics
4. The establishment of communism, and the
abolition of private property in land and capital
through industrial organization and the General
Strike
S. The establishment of free fraternal cooperation,
and the ultimate abolition of the coercive organization
of Government
6. The promotion of science and sociology, and
the abolition of religion and metaphysics