A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either
one already in exist-
ence, or a scheme that could be carried
out under existing conditions; but
it is exactly the existing conditions one objects to--
any scheme that could accept these
conditions is wrong and foolish.

The true criterion of practical, therefore,
is not whether the latter can keep intact
with the wrong or foolish;
rather it is whether the scheme has enough
vitality to leave the stagnant waters
of the old, and build and sustain new life.

In the light of this idea, Anarchism is indeed
practical. More than any other idea, it is helping
to do away with the wrong and the foolish; more
than any idea, it is building
and sustaining new life.

Or it hopes to.

From Comrade Goldman.