Struggle So That All May

The Education We All Receive From The State, At School And After, Has So Warped Our Minds That The Very Notion Of Freedom Ends Up By Being Lost, And Disguised In Servitude. It Is A Sad Sight To See Those Who Believe Themselves To Be Revolutionaries Unleashing Their Hatred On The Anarchist Just Because His Views On Freedom Go Beyond Their Petty And Narrow Concepts Of Freedom Learned In The State School.

But How Do European Railways Manage Without Them? How Do They Continue To Convey Millions Of Travellers And Mountains Of Luggage Across A Continent? If Companies Owning Railways Have Been Able To Agree, Why Should Railway Workers, Who Would Take Possession Of Railways, Not Agree Likewise? And If The Petersburg-warsaw Company And That Of Paris-belfort Can Act In Harmony, Without Giving Themselves The Luxury Of A Common Commander, Why, In The Midst Of Our Societies, Consisting Of Groups Of Free Workers, Should We Need A Government?

The Confused Mass Of Rules Of Conduct Called Law, Which Has Been Bequeathed To Us By Slavery, Serfdom, Feudalism, And Royalty, Has Taken The Place Of Those Stone Monsters, Before Whom Human Victims Used To Be Immolated, And Whom Slavish Savages Dared Not Even Touch Lest They Should Be Slain By The Thunderbolts Of Heaven.

Each Individual Is A Cosmos Of Organs, Each Organ Is A Cosmos Of Cells, Each Cell Is A Cosmos Of Infinitely Small Ones; And In This Complex World, The Well-being Of The Whole Depends Entirely On The Sum Of Well-being Enjoyed By Each Of The Least Microscopic Particles Of Organized Matter. A Whole Revolution Is Thus Produced In The Philosophy Of Life.

But Times And Tempers Are Changed. Rebels Are Everywhere To Be Found Who No Longer Wish To Obey The Law Without Knowing Whence It Comes, What Are Its Uses, And Whither Arises The Obligation To Submit To It, And The Reverence With Which It Is Encompassed. The Rebels Of Our Day Are Criticizing The Very Foundations Of Society Which Have Hitherto Been Held Sacred, And First And Foremost Amongst Them That Fetish, Law.