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If Man--if Each One Of Us--abdicates His Responsibilities With Regard To Values; If Each One Of Us Limits Himself To Leading A Trivial Existence In A Technological Civilization, With Greater Adaptation And Increasing Success As His Sole Objectives; If We Do Not Even Consider The Possibility Of Making A Stand Against These Determinants, Then Everything Will Happen As I Have Described It, And The Determinates Will Be Transformed Into Inevitabilities.

There Is A Limited Elite That Understands The Secrets Of Their Own Techniques, But Not Necessarily Of All Techniques. These Men Are Close To The Seat Of Modern Governmental Power. The State Is No Longer Founded On The 'average Citizen', But On The Ability And Knowledge Of This Elite. The Average Man Is Altogether Unable To Penetrate Technical Secrets Or Governmental Organization And Consequently Can Exert No Influence At All On The State.

For The Word Is Dialectical In Itself And At The Same Time Is Integrated Into The Whole Of Existence. By This I Mean That The Word Is Intended To Be Lived.

If I Rule Out Violent Anarchism, There Remains Pacifist, Anti-nationalist, Anti-capitalist, Moral, And Anti-democratic Anarchism (i.e., That Which Is Hostile To The Falsified Democracy Of Bourgeois States). There Remains The Anarchism Which Acts By Means Of Persuasion, By The Creation Of Small Groups And Networks, Denouncing Falsehood And Oppression, Aiming At A True Overturning Of Authorities Of All Kinds As People At The Bottom Speak And Organize Themselves.

It Was With The Industrial Revolution, As Society Plunged Ever More Eagerly Into The Conquest Of Material Riches And Bent All Its Energies To The Accumulation Of Goods, That Material Poverty Became A Major Problem. Obviously, This Meant Abandonment Or Downgrading Of Spiritual Values, Virtue, Etc. To Share Or Not To Share In The Increase Of The Collective Wealth-this Was The Number One Question. It Was The Desire To Acquire Wealth That Prompted The Poor To Start Fighting.