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In the 1890s, groups of young artists with no official place in the literary field managed to make themselves heard. They wanted to produce social art, art for the people, to give them a taste for revolt and incite them to emancipation. This active minority published a review and organized theatrical shows, readings, and conferences to carry out their plan in a didactic way. The backdrop of the daily life of the people was one of their preoccupations, as was the fate of the craftsmen with whom they identified. Speaking out in the name of the people incited them to become sociologists in order to oppose the criminal anthropology of Lombroso, but also better to explain what legitimized them. They practiced agitation, direct artistic and trade union action by refusing the violence of the bombs that were an alternative manifestation of anarchism.