And An Apprenticeship To Whatever Gadgetry Is

There Are Different Forms Of Anarchy And Different Currents In It. I Must, First Say Very Simply What Anarchy I Have In View. By Anarchy I Mean First An Absolute Rejection Of Violence.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).

Technological Society Leads To Increasing Numbers Of People Who Cannot Adapt To The Inhuman Rhythm Of Modern Life With Its Emphasis On Specialization. A Class Of People Is Growing Up Who Are Unexploitable Because They Are Not Worth Employing Even For The Minimum Wage. Technological Progress Makes Whole Categories Of People Useless Without Making It Possible To Support Them With The Wealth Produced By The Progress.

Almost Always, It Is The Conviction That 'i Am Right' Or 'my Cause Is The Cause Of Justice' That Triggers Violence. That Is, ...the Moment Propaganda Does Its Work, Violence Is Unleashed. And Violence Can Be Reduced By Countering This Propaganda.

For In A Civilization Which Has Lost The Meaning Of Life, The Most Important Thing A Christian Can Do Is To Live, And Life, Understood From The Point Of View Of Faith, Has An Extraordinary Explosive Force.