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what is anarchism? 43 69. L. Jarach, A Few Comments on Bufe, http://pub5ezboard.com/ ftheanarchyboardanarchy.shoMessage?topicID+112.topic 70. ‘Joff ’, Anti-Humanist Anarchism, http://library.nothingness.org/ articles/anar/en/display/306 71. S. Christie and A. Meltzer, The Floodgates of Anarchy (London: Kahn & Averill, 1984), 103–5.
chapter two anarchist rejections of the state Anarchism … is more than anti-statism. But government (the state) because it claims ultimate sovereignty and the right to outlaw or legitimate particular sovereignties, and because it serves the interests, predominantly, of those who possess particular spheres of power, stands at the centre of the web of social domination; it is appropriately, the central focus of anarchist critique. (David Wieck, in Reinventing Anarchy, p. 139) … the modern State is the organizational form of an authority founded upon arbitrariness and violence … It relies upon oppressive centralism, arising out of the direct violence of a minority deployed against the majority. In order to enforce and impose the legality of its system, the State resorts not only to the gun and money, but also to potent weapons of psychological pressure. With the aide [sic] of such weapons, a tiny group of politicians enforces psychological repression of an entire society, and, in particular, of the toiling masses, conditioning them in such a way as to divert their attention from the slavery instituted by the State. (Nestor Makhno, The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays, p. 56) The state has generated some of the most powerful images in anarchist writing. Following the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Emma Goldman described the state as a ‘cold monster’, an inhuman and murderous being. Fredy Perlman, a writer associated with primitivism, used the image of Leviathan referring to the idea of the state as outlined by the seventeenth-century British 44
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