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(Britannicas citation of anarchism)
The State organization, having always been, both in ancient and modern history the instrument for establishing monopolies in favor of the ruling minorities, cannot be made to work for the destruction of these monopolies.

State capitalism would only increase the powers of bureaucracy and capitalism.

go among the people and the question (of what to do) will solve itself.
..with all the fire of youth and all the judgement of age..(abt working for revolution)

(local specialised forces, collaboration, brain for action, unions etc) To reject this collaboration and to turn everything over to the genius of party dictators is to destroy the independent centers of our life, the trade unions and the local cooperative organizations, by changing them into bureaucratic organs of the party

when a government which undertakes to furnish every citizen with a lamp and even the match to light it, and then cannot do it even with a limitless number of officials, —that government becomes a nuisance.

(this chalet is a good summary of why USSR failed)
The evils natural to state communism have been increased ten-fold under the pretext that all our misery is due to foreign intervention.
All efforts to reunite under a central control the naturally separate parts of the Russian Empire are predestined to failure.
A council of workers ceases to be free and of any use when liberty of the press no longer exists,..

we know also that this idea of dictatorship is never anything more than a sickly product of governmental fetish-worship..
It is a compromise made in advance between the socialistic aspirations of the masses and the desires of the middle class.

They understand that it is impossible for a people in insurrection to give themselves, by means of elec-tions, any government but one that represents the past.
the dictatorship of an individual or of a party (at bottom the very same thing) has been finally con-demned. We know that revolution and government are incompatible. One must destroy the other no matter what name is given

But society,after having done everything it could to make an enemy of him,having inoculated him with the vices of the prison,rejects him.He is condemned to become a "repeater."
The most forward-looking and intelligent minds of our time proclaim that society as a whole is responsible for every anti-social act committed.We have our part in the glory of our heroes and geniuses;we also share in the acts of our assassins

And what inspiration can a prisoner get to work for the common good, deprived as he is of all connections with life outside?
Where will he find the strength to resist the first impulse to a passionate outbreak, if during several years everything was done to kill this inner strength, to make him a docile tool in the hands of those who control him?

So long as you deprive a man of his liberty, you will not make him better. You will cultivate habitual criminals.
To begin with, there is the fact that none of the prisoners recognize the justice of the punishment inflicted on them(abt how it becomes them vs us)
the thirst for riches, acquired by every possible means, is the very essence of bourgeois society.
..jails are made for the unskillful not for criminals.

The meting out of justice was always the principal instrument for creating rights and privilege, since it was based on solid foundations of constituted rights.
Every injustice committed against one individual is, in the end, experienced by humanity as a whole.
the prison kills all the qualities in a man which make him best adapted to community life.

Without speaking of a society in which a man will receive a better education,in which the development of all his faculties,and the possibility of exercising them,will procure him so many enjoyments that he will not seek to poison them by remorse
Liberty, equality and practical human sympathy are the only effectual barriers we can oppose to the anti-social instincts of certain among us.

Moreover it is also a well known fact that the fear of punishment has never stopped a single murderer. he who kils his neighbor from revenge or misery does not reason much about consequences;

(third category of law. protection of person) prevention of "crime." This is the most important
because most prejudices attach to it;
the right of society to punish -very good thing to think abt
the severity of punishment does not diminish the amount of crime… But if the harvest is good, and bread cheap, and the weather fine, the number of murders immediately decreases.

that the mission of all governments, monarchical, constitu-tional, or republican, is to protect and maintain by force the privileges of the classes in possession, the aristocracy, clergy and traders. .. And this machine in its turn serves almost entirely to protect the privileges of the possessing classes.

Customs absolutely essential to the very being of society are in the code cleverly intermingled with usages imposed by the ruling caste,and both claim equal respect from the crowd. Do not kill, says the code, and hastens to add, And pay tithes to the priest. Do not steal, says the code, and immediately after, He who refuses to pay taxes, shall have his hand struck off.
Law maintained only by the fear of punishment

As man does not live in a solitary state, habits and feelings develop within him which are useful for the preservation of society and the propagation of the race.
The unknown frightens them, they prefer to cling to the past even when that past represents poverty, oppression and slavery.

They see a race of law-makers legislating without knowing what their laws are about; today voting a law on the sanitation of towns, without the faintest notion of hygiene, tomorrow making regulations for the armament of troops, without so much as understanding a gun;

men who long for freedom begin the attempt to obtain it by entreating their masters to be kind enough to protect them by modifying the laws which the masters themselves have created(looking for solution without finding the cause
instead of perpetual growth corresponding to that of the human race,they find its distinctive trait to be immobility, tendency to crystallize what should be modified and developed day by day

obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom Is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.

men are continually led to demand from law what can proced only from themselves, from their own education and their own morality.
In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

In the struggle between the individuall and the State, anarchism, like its predecessors of the eighteenth century, takes the side of the individual as against the State, of society as against the authority which oppresses it.
..the root of modern evil lies not in the fact that the capitalist appropriates the profits or the surplus-value, but in the very possibility of these profits,..

..we shall see wether it is at all possible to inculcate morality while teaching the doctrine of inequality.
FREEDOM TO OPPOSE EXPLOITATION HAS SO FAR NEVER AND NOWHERE EXISTED. (abt government affirming that it is based in non-interference and that you may truly oppose it)

We maintain that the State organization, having been the force to which the minorities resorted for establishing and organizing their power over the masses, cannot be the force which will serve to destroy these privileges.
We know that the social revolution will not be accomplished by means of laws. Laws can only follow the accomplished facts;

.. such monopolies cannot be maintained otherwise than under the protection of a monopolist legislation and an organized coercion by the State ..
The greatest obstacle to the maintenance of a certain moral level in our present societies lies in the absence of social equality. .. JUSTICE IMPLIES THE RECOGNITION OF EQUALITY
Those only are allowed to attain a certain development of individualities who are not dangerous