Sonvilier Circular
1871 ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN TREATISE
Sonvilier circular; Sonvillier Circular
The Sonvilier Circular is a 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.