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Robert Paul Wolff

“An authoritative command must … be distinguished from a persuasive argument. When I am commanded to do something, I may choose to comply even though I am not being threatened, because I am brought to believe that it is something which I ought to do. If that is the case, then I am not, strictly speaking, obeying a command, but rather acknowledging the force or rightness of a prescription. … But the person himself [sic] has no authority—or, to be more precise, my complying with his command does not constitute an acknowledgment on my part of any such authority.”

Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism
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In Defense of Anarchism (with a New Preface) In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff
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