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As Anarchists we're often presented with monolithic arguments, we're told we must have the State because we've always had the State, that we must have capitalism because we've always had capitalism, that we need money because we've always had money, and that we need prisons because we've always had them. But in terms of the history of humanity, all these things are very recent, and the idea of mass incarceration as a punishment is very new indeed.
[Section 2: Ateneo Libertario Del Besos, Barcelona, 27th April 2004, Page 17.]
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We ought not to lose sight of the fact that the theory of divine right, to which we can be directly connected, is founded upon a supposed primacy that the government would have over the people. Our whole history, our whole legislation are founded upon this monumental nonsense: that government is a thing that antedates the people, that the people is a derivation from government; that there was, or may well have been, a government around before ever any people existed. This is the established view, and the annals of the world are engraved upon this aberration of the human intellect. Thus, for as long as government lasts, the principle of its authority will remain intact, divine right will persist among us and the people — whose suffrage is the equivalent of the old consecration — will never, ever (and no matter how it may be called) be anything other than a subject.
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...if politics, stepping down from its former sham exaltation, is reduced to the level of common crime — of which it has always been the hidden but real inspiration — the governmental fiction is dispelled and humankind freed of all the misunderstandings which have thus far lain behind all strife and the dismal occurrences it has brought in its wake.
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...governments have not always existed. They are but a recent phenomenon and are, therefore, not inevitable in human society.
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We look with harsher eyes on the record of persecutions, cruelties, and dangers spread over the past than we do on those that have become a part of the familiar scene. Yet if by Divine interposition, a sixteenth-century yeoman, say, were enabled to read through the newspapers of the last fifty years, what would he think of the methods used and the casualities inflicted in two world wars, and a score of others also? Would he compare the Gestapo so favorably with the Inquisition?
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April 12, 2020 : The State -- Added.
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