It Is No Crime To Be Ignorant

Instead Of A Bumbling And Inefficient Tool Of Society, The Radical [libertarian] Sees The State Itself, In Its Very Nature, As Coercive, Exploitative, Parasitic, And Hence Profoundly Antisocial. The State Is, And Always Has Been, The Great Single Enemy Of The Human Race, Its Liberty, Happiness, And Progress.

I Define Anarchist Society As One Where There Is No Legal Possibility For Coercive Aggression Against The Person Or Property Of Any Individual. Anarchists Oppose The State Because It Has Its Very Being In Such Aggression, Namely, The Expropriation Of Private Property Through Taxation, The Coercive Exclusion Of Other Providers Of Defense Service From Its Territory, And All Of The Other Depredations And Coercions That Are Built Upon These Twin Foci Of Invasions Of Individual Rights.

We Must, Therefore, Emphasize That 'we' Are Not The Government; The Government Is Not 'us.' The Government Does Not In Any Accurate Sense 'represent' The Majority Of The People. But, Even If It Did, Even If 70 Percent Of The People Decided To Murder The Remaining 30 Percent, This Would Still Be Murder And Would Not Be Voluntary Suicide On The Part Of The Slaughtered Minority. No Organicist Metaphor, No Irrelevant Bromide That 'we Are All Part Of One Another,' Must Be Permitted To Obscure This Basic Fact.

Essentially, I Mean The Almost Self-evident Fact That Individuals, Ethnic Groups, And Races Differ Among Themselves In Intelligence And In Many Other Traits, And That Intelligence, As Well As Less Controversial Traits Of Temperament, Are In Large Part Hereditary.

I See The Liberty Of The Individual Not Only As A Great Moral Good In Itself (or, With Lord Acton, As The Highest Political Good), But Also As The Necessary Condition For The Flowering Of All The Other Goods That Mankind Cherishes: Moral Virtue, Civilization, The Arts And Sciences, Economic Prosperity.