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"I think my brief period in the Panthers was very important because it taught me about the limits of -- and even the bankruptcy of -- leadership in a revolutionary movement."
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin,
African-American Anarchist
An African-American anarchist and former Black Panther
What I want is the revolution, which will cause poverty to disappear. I hail the revolution, which is inevitable, and I hope that it will come soon to bring liberty and equality to the suffering.
Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money.
Unfortunately, there are still a number of people who continue in the fatal belief that government rests on natural laws, that it maintains social order and harmony, that it diminishes crime, and that it prevents the lazy man from fleecing his fellows.
It is not another state that men aim at, but their union, uniting, this ever-fluid uniting of everything standing.
I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it's true is because they have so much in common.
We can only desire based on what we know. It is our present experience of what we are and are not able to do that largely determines our sense for what is possible.
Either it is true that humanity by intelligence and by the practice of mutual aid and direct action can reverse processes which appear socially inevitable, or humanity will become extinct by simple maladaptation.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the state act in the interests of the working people. As an organ in the social body, its purpose is for the repression of self-determination.
The power of the state will never deliver joy, happiness and fulfillment to any society. Such power was created by drones for the sole purpose of pillage and indulgence of their often murderous violence against those who do produce, through their toil - whether through determination, intelligence or brawn - everything useful and good in man's life.
What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
All that's left to be done is that the workers take possession of the factory, the workshop, the mine, the foundry, the railroad, the ship, in a word, everything - that they recognize no bosses of any type.
Liberty is not daughter of order but mother of order.
While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other!
The revolution did not fail, it was defeated militarily. Perhaps with the passage of time it would have developed a paralyzing bureaucracy but we will never know.
We can use queer theory to conceptualize new relationship forms and social relations that resist patriarchy and other oppressions by creating a distinctly queer-anarchist form of social relation.
The idea of dominating nature has a history that is almost as old as that of hierarchy itself.
I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes.
Nor can the nation-state and the capitalist system survive indefinitely. Not only is this system widening the divisions between rich and poor around the world into a yawning chasm, but it is also on a collision course with the biosphere.
Freedom means more than the right to change masters.
Out of the class or property social system there cannot emerge a "representation" which signifies an honest attempt to secure just exposition of principles and expressions of antagonistic interests.
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Indeed, in many cases, maliciousness and stupidity will put many obstacles in the road of the new idea. That is the reason why hard struggles must be fought for unconditional mutual tolerance, until it is finally achieved. Only from then on will everything proceed automatically, science will bloom and advance, because the necessary foundation for every progress, namely experimental freedom and free research have been achieved.
We are firmly convinced that the most imperfect republic is a thousand times better than the most enlightened monarchy.
The revolution is the outcome of many causes whose origin we situate in a higher level of culture of the people, in the discrepancy between their aspirations and the organization that rules and governs the people.
Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all.
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
If the federal government can't even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?
The anarchist ideals are far from being in contradiction, as the "scientific socialists" claim, to the laws of evolution as proved by science; they are a conception which fits these laws perfectly; they are the experimental system brought from the field of research to that of social realization.
The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
Let us not lose time asking others to give us what we can obtain ourselves.
It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
God and mankind have concerned themselves for nothing, for nothing but themselves. Let me then likewise concern myself for myself, who am equally with God the nothing of all others, who am my all, who am the only one.
Human liberation and the protection of nonhuman life are not merely compatible -- both are necessary.
Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!
True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force - necessity.
We do not fetishize organization, but in order to elaborate and defend this struggle, organization is a necessity.
Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of the fourth estate.
The outcome of this vote will, at best, slow down the rate at which the American government gravitates towards plutocracy, police statism and global corporate Empire.
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer.
It is very difficult for the Marxist-Leninists to make an objective criticism of anarchism as such, because by its nature it undermines all the suppositions basic to Marxism.
To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
Being an anarchist does not mean one has reached a certainty or said once and for all, "There, from now on I hold the truth and as such, at least from the point of view of the idea, I am a privileged person." Anyone who thinks like this is an anarchist in word alone.
"Know thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, "Be thyself" shall be written.
The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years.
The anarchist teaching prescribes no method of struggle and rejects none which is in harmony with self-determination and free will.
There are some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are ignorance, superstition, and bigotry - the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
Now, in a situation where the working class has practically disintegrated, the possibility of an expropriation of the means of production no longer exists.
I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment - individual liberty. That's what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.
The best defense for the new society lies in it asserting its revolutionary character because this quickly creates conditions in which no attempt at a restoration of the bourgeoisie will find a solid base.
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
In all times, the proletarian was only able to rise above his poverty when -- through his own efforts combined with his brothers' -- he himself created his own wealth.
I do not believe in government, and so I am an anarchist. I believe that government is one of the worst forms of modern oppression, is the source of war and economic oppression, and must be overthrown.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled utopian.
In order to destroy an effect you must first destroy the cause. If there is theft it is only because there is abundance on one hand and famine on the other; because everything only belongs to some. The struggle will only disappear when men will put their joys and suffering in common, their labors and their riches, when all will belong to everyone.
Each seeks his way, we seek ours and think the day that freedom and equality reign, mankind will be happy.
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
What is the most important thing in the world? It is eating. Why do you women suffer mistreatment? It is relying on others in order to eat.
The lunacy of the Soviet regime must be eliminated and replaced by the vital principles of the exploited workers, on a basis of solidarity, freedom and equal voice for each and every person.
Direct democracy is a proven practice among peoples of high culture.
I am not appreciated in this society. I have the right to live, and while your imbecilic criminal society tries to stop me, well too bad for it, too bad for you!
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice?
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
We are certain that communities of joy will emerge from our struggle here and now. And for the first time life will triumph over death.
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right.
It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal.
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
The hundreds of workers' associations organized during the period 1870-1900 and the tens of publications give ample testimony to the energetic anarchist activity designed to destroy bourgeois, state and religious influences among workers.
There has not been one revolution in the world's history which was carried out by the working people in their own interests - by urban workers and poor peasants who do not exploit the work of others.
In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Belgium, England, the trade union organizations were political; they tailored their policies to be in accord with the socialist parties; can you deny that they collaborated in the war?
Anarchy's roots go deep: its spouts from the bosom of a rotten society that is falling apart; it is a violent backlash against the established order; it stands for the aspirations to equality and liberty which have entered the lists against the current authoritarianism.
The sense of justice and equality, the love of liberty and of human brotherhood - these fundamentals of the real regeneration of society - the communist state suppressed to the point of extermination.
Those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act.
Certainly, it is already no longer possible, in my view, to call oneself an anarchist without adding a qualifying adjective to distinguish oneself from lifestyle anarchists.
We won the revolution, what we lost was the war.
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Never does a State aim to bring in the free activity of individuals, but always that which is bound to the purpose of the State.
Free culture benefits consumers, it benefits artists, and it benefits the general culture. The only people who don't benefit are the parastic corporations of Big Content.
One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions - the truth that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.
The revolution, in my opinion, comrade delegates, is not, and cannot be, the work of a party. A party does not carry out a revolution; a party cannot do more than organize a coup d'etat and a coup d'etat is not a revolution.
What matters most is that people, all men, lose their sheepish instincts and habits that the millennial slavery inspired them, and they learn to think and act freely.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.
I am not a robber but one who has been robbed, someone who brings justice, who says that everything belongs to everyone, and that it is this clear logic of the anarchist idea, which makes your legs tremble.
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.
From the earliest days of the "revolution", anarchists began their trek through moral tragedy along the paths of pain -- the deportations, the exile, the imprisonment, the ghastly persecution and the shootings. Such is the lot of anarchists today. Just as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
I say, if death is the penalty for proclaiming truth, then I will proudly and defiantly pay the costly price! Truth crucified in Socrates, in Christ, in Giordano Bruno, in Huss, Galileo still lives - they and others whose number is legion have preceded us on this path. We are ready to follow!
Even in infancy, while a person is dependent on another, abuses are committed and slavery and tyranny exist. It should be the purpose of free schools to study the reasons for such a lack of solidarity, to draw the attention of the pupils to what they actually see.
There are differences in the parties - I don't think they're great differences, but they're real, and small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences.
Class is massively underrepresented in literature. Most books are written for the middle class, and generally they only have two modes of talking about the working class. The first is a kind of lofty contempt at the vulgarity, the stupidity of those people. The second is a kind of patronizing concern, which paints the working class as nothing but victims.
All of the exploited, legal or illegal, cooperate in the state of domination.
Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to heirarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it.
Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil war, but the main lesson that he received was a full confirmation of the working class's capacity to govern itself and the damage done by the committees' bureaucratic leaderism.
We might mention the monumental hypocrisy of the regulation of credit unions in the United States, which require that their membership must share some common bond, like working for the same employer.
Do I want to propose my own system? Not at all! I am an advocate of all systems.
Right-libertarians aren't noted for siding with workers against employers, and right-to-work isn't an exception to the rule.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism.
Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong.
"Class", "power", "state", are three inseparable terms, one of which presupposes the other two.
Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively: not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest... he who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means.
We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor.
No one should ever work... In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
It is through the inspiration of collective responsibility that the revolutionaries of all epochs and all schools have united their forces; it is upon this that they based their hope that their partial revolts - revolts which opened the path for the oppressed - were not in vain, that the exploited would understand their aspirations, would extract from them the applications suitable for the time and would use them to find new paths toward their emancipation.
Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.
The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social democrats to patch up the state into a new engine of oppression.
The life that society offers us is not a full, free and joyful life. It is a crushed, mutilated, humiliated life. We must refuse it.
In an informal organization there is no question of synthesis.
Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter.
The anarchists have but one party, and that is humanity.
Who knows if it will be possible for the U.S. anarchist scene to coexist with, let alone work with a newly emerging Black anti-authoritarian movement? One thing that white anarchists must understand it that is not merely a question of getting Blacks and other non-whites to join Anarchist associations, just to say they have a Black face. We must work to build a non-racist society and we must have principled unity.
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
The emancipation of woman is nothing else than the emancipation of humanity - both sexes.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Power is cursed, that is why I am an anarchist.
Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain its prices and to create hungry masses to work under any conditions.
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
Whereas we anarchists desire the extinction of the state through the social revolution and the constitution of an autonomist federal order, the Leninists desire the destruction of the bourgeois state and moreover the conquest of the state by the "proletariat."
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity.
Today, go blossom in the shadow of the dark and sad prisons. Go, bloom near the somber captive, and tell them truly that we love them. Tell them that through fleeting time, everything belongs to the future, that the livid conqueror can die more surely than the conquered.
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."
Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.
No, it is not life that is bad, but the conditions in which we live. Therefore we shall address ourselves not to life, but to these conditions: let us change them.
A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean.
My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron.
You have accused me of theft, as if a worker that has nothing could be a thief.
Anarchism is "stateless socialism."
The establishment of a citizens' assembly is not in itself a fulfillment; until its participating citizens develop radical content, it will be only an institutional structure.
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The internationalism of socialists is just an empty phrase.
At the basis of Proudhon's economic theory we find two essential ideas, that of value and that of exchange. These two ideas are only of interest in the regime of individual property.
Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
The two principles referred to are authority and liberty, and the names of the two schools of socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, state socialism and anarchism.
The liberty of every individual is only the reflection of his own humanity, or his human right through the conscience of all free men, his brothers and his equals.
Even if a single United Nations World State would come into existence, it would solve nothing. It would still be composed of the reduced number of state organisms crystallizing around the remaining great powers.
You who are resigned, look: I spit on your idols. I spit on God, the Fatherland, I spit on Christ, I spit on the flag, I spit on capital and the golden calf; I spit on laws and Codes, on the symbols of religion; they are baubles, I could not care less about them, I laugh at them...
Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
In the midst of the unspeakable chaos of philosophies of all kinds and of various moralities we can cull out the constant and persistent tendency which pushes the individual towards life. Towards an ever better life, freer and more noble: that is, towards happiness.
For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political oppression, all that which serves to raise the moral and intellectual level of human beings, to give them the consciousness of their rights and of their forces and to persuade them to do their business by themselves, all that provokes hatred against oppression and love between people, brings us closer to our aim.
By providing the illusion of participation for everyone, democracy allows majorities to justify their actions, no matter how oppressive.
You should reject every authority, but also commit yourself to a deep respect for all sincere convictions. Live your own life, but also allow others the complete freedom to live theirs.
Anarchy -- the sovereignty of the individual over his own actions -- is the goal for which we strive. Communism is one of those incidents that come afterwards.
In a republic, there are at least brief periods when the people, while continually exploited, is not oppressed; in the monarchies, oppression is constant.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
There is no principle of anarchy that denies the right of free contract, and have I not a right to contract with others to live with them under the principles of communism?
Freedom, we want nothing more than freedom, since what freedom does not do, not one institution whatsoever will be able to make possible.
The really wholesome, joyous life of the individual or group is not built up with the aid of power and programs that seek to enclose it within artificial constructs and written laws.
These revolutionaries, bare-necked politickers, have preserved with the imprint of the collar, the moral stain of servitude, the stiff neck of despotism.
Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment.
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite -- a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Aggression is simply another name for government.
Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems.
You must liberate your ego from all limitedness so entirely that it becomes a human ego.
The influence that theoretical anarchists pretend to wield over the revolutionary movement is nil. Today the field is open to action, without weakness or retreat.
Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.
Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways.
Unfortunately, a preoccupation with technical size, scale, and even artistry deflects our attention away from the most significant problems of technics - notably, its ties with the ideals and social structures of freedom.
Almost all contemporary political ideologies, with their characteristic tendency to state-idolatry, are likewise largely a product of two world wars, begotten as they are of the inexorability's of fate.
In other words, what Clinton wants is the opposite of free trade. She wants to keep the wealth of Africa in hands of the heirs and assigns of the same people who stole it, under colonialism.
Today the anarchists are numerous enough to overthrow the current state of things, and if that hasn't yet happened, it's because we must complete the education of the followers, give birth in them to the energy and the firm will to assist in the realization of their projects.
The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.
Maybe I am crazy. But my madness is the most terrible rationality. I see further, I feel life more vividly.
Why, liberty of the press is only permission of the press, and the state never will or can voluntarily permit me to grind it to nothingness by the press.
The revolution has cast a powerful net of sympathy among the workers of the entire world, and it would be most unfortunate if we were to deliver ourselves over to debates that are more or less partisan and biased and thus destroy the achievements to which this sympathy has given rise.
In a society where waste and planned obsolescence were no longer subsidized, and there were no barriers to competition socializing the full benefits of technological progress, we could probably enjoy our present quality of life with a fifteen-hour work week.
If revolution results only in a change of dictatorship, then it is hardly worth while.
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.
In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
The fact that the modern state is the organizational form of an authority founded upon arbitrariness and violence in the social life of toilers is independent of whether it may be "bourgeois" or "proletarian."
According to their absurd programs, the statist socialists and communists have decided to "allow" man to emancipate himself socially, without its thereby being feasible for him to manifest that freedom in his social life.
Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows.
Anarchism, nihilism, and terrorism are often mistakenly equated, and in most dictionaries will be found at least two definitions of the anarchist. One presents him as a man who believes that government must die before freedom can live. The other dismisses him as a mere promoter of disorder who offers nothing in place of the order he destroys.
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit. The Invisible Committee Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
The revolution consisted in the fact that the workers became masters of the instruments of labor and did not falter in their management of the means of production.
To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not really appeal to me. If it was possible, it would be the most suffocating tyranny to which human society has ever been subjected.
Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate.
One courageous act has sufficed to upset in a few days the entire governmental machinery, to make the colossus tremble.
Very young, the virus of justice was inoculated to me and it earned me many a trouble.
Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
Government intervention in the market is the main source of large fortunes.
Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges.
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions.
The keeping of power is followed by certain benefits that incite the ambition of many who look at it as an end rather than a means, and aspire power to enjoy it.
It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual aid principle appears in full.
Only the man who has successfully rid himself of the chains of oppression and seen all the horrors being perpetrated against the human race can be persuaded that his freedom and that of his neighbor are inviolable, as are their lives, and that his neighbor is his brother.
It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment.


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