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Notes (3)
"But who is to decide how much violence is necessary in any given case? We here arrive at the pivot point upon which all power now turns for good or evil; this pivot, under formal, exacting, aggressive institutions and constitutions, is the person who decides as to their meaning. If one decides for all, then all but one are, perhaps, enslaved; if each one's title to Sovereignty is admitted, there will be different interpretations, and this freedom to differ will ensure emancipation, safety, repose, even in a political atmosphere! and all the co-operation we ought to expect will come from the coincidence of motives according to the merits of each case as estimated by different minds. Where there is evidence of aggression palpable to all minds, all might co-operate to resist it: and where the case is not clearly made out, there will be more or less hesitation: Two great nations will not then be so very ready to jump at each other's throats when the most cunning lawyers are puzzled to decide which is wrong!"
- Josiah Warren
from
True Civilization: An Immediate Necessity, and the Last Ground of Hope for Mankind
(1863)
The Anarchist Handbook,
chapter 6, page 54
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