I Do Not Wish To Be Either

It Is The Liberty That Is The Mother, Not The Daughter, Of Order.

Tormented By Conflicting Feelings, I Appealed To Reason ; And It Is Reason Which, Amid So Many Dogmatic Contradictions, Now Forces The Hypothesis Upon Me. A Priori Dogmatism, Applying Itself To God, Has Proved Fruitless: Who Knows Whither The Hypothesis, In Its Turn, Will Lead Us? I Will Explain Therefore How, Studying In The Silence Of My Heart, And Far From Every Human Consideration, The Mystery Of Social Revolutions, God, The Great Unknown, Has Become For Me An Hypothesis, I Mean A Necessary Dialectical Tool.

To Be Governed Is To Be Watched, Inspected, Spied Upon, Directed, Law-ridden, Regulated, Penned Up, Indoctrinated, Preached At, Checked, Appraised, Seized, Censured, Commanded, By Beings Who Have Neither Title, Nor Knowledge, Nor Virtue. To Be Governed Is To Have Every Operation, Every Transaction, Every Movement Noted, Registered, Counted, Rated, Stamped, Measured, Numbered, Assessed, Licensed, Refused, Authorized, Indorsed, Admonished, Prevented, Reformed, Redressed, Corrected.

The Social Revolution Is Seriously Compromised If It Comes Through A Political Revolution.

All My Economic Ideas As Developed Over Twenty-five Years Can Be Summed Up In The Words: Agricultural-industrial Federation. All My Political Ideas Boil Down To A Similar Formula: Political Federation Or Decentralization.