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If each and every one of those parties could know for sure that it would not feel the weight of the power of some one of its enemies, their antagonism would be banished in an instant, the way it was on 24 February 1848, when the people, having overthrown the powers-that-be, swept the parties aside. * 2 Without harking too far back into our history, and looking only to the pages covering the past two years, it can readily be seen that the turbulence of the parties has been the number one cause of all the repressive laws which have been passed. * 3 The parties are horrified by political indifference, that non-porous metal that withstands corruption by any rule. It is high time that we paid attention to these legionaries of abstention, because it is among them that democracy is to be found; it is among them that liberty resides so exclusive and so absolute that such liberty will not be achieved by the nation except on the day when the entire populace apes their example. * 4 It is perhaps natural to exaggerate the importance of political party differences in Canadian, as in British and American, history, but when any long period in any of their modern histories is examined carefully, it becomes obvious that usually the two parties, ordinarily supposed to be in bitter opposition, had more in common than in dispute. * 5 The libertarian revolutionary cannot have anything to do with party political organization. It can only be a vantage place for power, or a memorial to past battles, or a spiritual ghetto. It is subject to the pitfalls of bureaucracy or those of takeover. * 6 The man whom one knows -- a good fellow, able to live as an individual a life which is free from any conscious assaults on the rights of others, who does not make a practice of beating his own head or the heads of others against the walls, who is sane, with whom one eats and drinks... this same man can very well return one evening to talk or drink with you again and catalog the most grotesque and contemptible actions which he has performed, or which he supports, with full approval and fixed delusional sense of their rightness, solely because he is now acting as a member of some organized and irresponsible group. He will pay any price to rid himself of the selfhood which, subconsciously, he knows must die. * 7 In politics, naught but quantity counts. In proportion to its increase, however, principles, ideals, justice, and uprightness are completely swamped by the array of numbers. In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god, -- Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment. We have not far to go in search of proof to verify this sad fact. * 8 Oh, my dearest, all political parties are stupid, narrow and visionless. That's why I have never belonged to any. * 9 ...the founders of sects and factions to be detested and hated; because the influence of faction is directly contrary to that of laws. Factions subvert government, render laws impotent, and beget the fiercest animosities among men of the same nation, who ought to give mutual assistance and protection to each other. * 10 Don't deceive yourself. No party is going to carry out a revolution. There's nothing here, nothing. Believe me: drop all political adventures and devote yourself to working seriously on behalf of education. * 11 ...the conclusions reached have always been much influenced by basic ideologies and one's estimates of political 'realities' -- which estimates sometimes go with a strong preference for inertia as against initiative and experiment. * 12 The freedom of one party is the negation of the freedom of the others. The best government functions never in accordance with the will of all. There are victors and defeated, suppressors in the name of the present law and insurgents in the name of freedom. * 13 It is a horrible thing to have to enter into the details of inter-party polemics; it is like diving into a cesspool. * 14 The normal way of publishing a pamphlet is through a political party, and the party will see to it that any "deviation" -- and hence any literary value -- is kept out. * 15 ...to accept political responsibility now means yielding oneself over to orthodoxies and "party lines", with all the timidity and dishonesty that that implies. * 16 ...the field of political party strife, now chiefly intended to fool the masses... * 17 In the state the party is current. "Party, party, who should not join one!" But the individual is unique, not a member of the party. He unites freely, and separates freely again. The party is nothing but a state in the state, and in this smaller bee-state "peace" is also to rule just as in the greater. The very people who cry loudest that there must be an opposition in the state inveigh against every discord in the party. A proof that they too want only a -- state. * 18 What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag. * 19 Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves -­- sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other. Not only individuals, but states, have thus a confirmed dyspepsia, which expresses itself, you can imagine by what sort of eloquence. Thus our life is not altogether a forgetting, but also, alas! to a great extent, a remembering, of that which we should never have been conscious of, certainly not in our waking hours. * 20 There are thirty-six parties in Spain. Thirty-six parties and not one less. We have made a list and see that we presently have thirty-six programs, drafted by figures from the Left, Right, and Center. One needs approximately four and a half hours daily to read the manifestos and proclamations from these political groupings, with the aggravating circumstance that we hardly learn anything. All the appeals and harangues neglect to mention the principal issue: their authors want to rule us. * 21 I have never received anything from the Jansenists or the Molinists except a strong aversion for sects, and some indifference to their opinions. Events : ---------------------------------- Political Parties -- Added : March 12, 2020 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/