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The Anarchists Put The Thing Upside Down. They Declare That The Proletarian Revolution Must Begin By Doing Away With The Political Organization Of The State. But To Destroy It At Such A Moment Would Be To Destroy The Only Organism By Means Of Which The Victorious Proletariat Can Assert Its Newly-conquered Power, Hold Down Its Capitalist Adversaries, And Carry Out That Economic Revolution Of Society Without Which The Whole Victory Must End In A New Defeat And A Mass Slaughter Of The Workers Similar To Those After The Paris Commune.

We Find Two Great Gangs Of Political Speculators, Who Alternately Take Possession Of The State Power And Exploit It By The Most Corrupt Ends -- The Nation Is Powerless Against These Two Great Cartels Of Politicians Who Are Ostensibly Its Servants, But In Reality Dominate And Plunder It.

Political Economy Came Into Being As A Natural Result Of The Expansion Of Trade, And With Its Appearance Elementary, Unscientific Huckstering Was Replaced By A Developed System Of Licensed Fraud, An Entire Science Of Enrichment.

Labour Is The Source Of All Wealth, The Political Economists Assert. And It Really Is The Source -- Next To Nature, Which Supplies It With The Material That It Converts Into Wealth. But It Is Even Infinitely More Than This. It Is The Prime Basic Condition For All Human Existence, And This To Such An Extent That, In A Sense, We Have To Say That Labour Created Man Himself.

It Is A Curious Fact That With Every Great Revolutionary Movement The Question Of 'free Love' Comes Into The Foreground.