The Hopeless Don't Revolt, Because Revolution Is

Educated Men - "civilized," As Fourier Used To Say With Disdain - Tremble At The Idea That Society Might Some Day Be Without Judges, Police, Or Gaolers.

The Moral Sense Is A Natural Faculty In Us Like The Sense Of Smell Or Of Touch.

It Is Often Said That Anarchists Live In A World Of Dreams To Come, And Do Not See The Things Which Happen Today. We Do See Them Only Too Well, And In Their True Colors, And That Is What Makes Us Carry The Hatchet Into The Forest Of Prejudice That Besets Us.

There Are Those, On The One Hand, Who Hope To Achieve The Social Revolution Through The State By Preserving And Even Extending Most Of Its Powers To Be Used For The Revolution. And There Are Those Like Ourselves Who See The State, Both In Its Present Form, In Its Very Essence, And In Whatever Guise It Might Appear, An Obstacle To The Social Revolution, The Greatest Hindrance To The Birth Of A Society Based On Equality And Liberty, As Well As The Historic Means Designed To Prevent This Blossoming.

Anarchism (from The Gr. , And , Contrary To Authority), The Name Given To A Principle Or Theory Of Life And Conduct Under Which Society Is Conceived Without Government Harmony In Such A Society Being Obtained, Not By Submission To Law, Or By Obedience To Any Authority, But By Free Agreements Concluded Between The Various Groups, Territorial And Professional, Freely Constituted For The Sake Of Production And Consumption, As Also For The Satisfaction Of The Infinite Variety Of Needs And Aspirations Of A Civilized Being.