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Religion, Property, Fatherland, the Family – beliefs and institutions that all proceed from the principle of authority – have made and still make of history a centuries long painful and bloody drama....
This drama I want, with all the ardor of my will, to put an early end to.
And to this end I employ all my strength for the demolition of all authoritarian Bastilles: government, capitalism, religion, the army, parliament, the magistracy, the police, the family.
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But in that case what is the meaning of the words: "The principal antidote to the counter-revolution is the arming of the workers and peasants"? Against whom will the workers and peasants arm themselves? Will it not be against the governmental authority of the revolutionary Kuomintang? The slogan of arming the workers and peasants, if it is not a phrase, a subterfuge, a masquerade, but a call to action, is not less sharp in character than the slogan of workers' and peasants' Soviets. Is it likely that the armed masses will tolerate at their side or over them the governmental authority of a bureaucracy alien and hostile to them?
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Burn their laws and destroy their prisons, kill the hangmen, the bane of mankind. Smash authority!
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The authoritarian parties have a specific program and want to impose it by force; therefore they aspire to seizing the power, regardless of whether legally or illegally, and transforming society their way, through a new legislation. This explains why they are revolutionary in words and often also in intentions, but they hesitate to make a revolution when the opportunities arise; they are not sure of the acquiescence, even passive, of the majority, they do not have sufficient military force to have their orders carried out over the whole territory, they lack devoted people with skills in all the countless branches of social activity... therefore they are always forced to postpone action, until they are almost reluctantly pushed to the government by the popular uprising. However, once in power, they would like to stay there indefinitely, therefore they try to slow down, divert, stop the revolution that raised them.
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[Those] concerned with public life can be divided into two groups. One includes all those who patronize uprisings and sackings, burnings and revolutions, as well as all those who sympathize with, or compromise with, such things. The other includes all of us who hold ... a deep respect for authority and law... it is absolutely necessary to take action against the first group of individuals.
Chronology :
November 25, 2020 : Authority -- Added.
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