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25 lines
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Our social institutions are founded on certain ideas; as long as the
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latter are generally believed, the institutions built on them are safe.
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Government remains strong because people think political authority and
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legal compulsion necessary. Capitalism will continue as long as such
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an economic system is considered adequate and just. The weakening of
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the ideas which support the evil and oppressive present-day conditions
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means the ultimate breakdown of government and capitalism. Progress
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consists in abolishing what man has outlived and substituting in its
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place a more suitable environment.
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"I've heard that anarchists don't believe in organisation."
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I imagine that you have, but that's an old arguement. Any one who tells
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you that anarchists don't believe in organisation is talking nonsense.
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Organisation is everything, and everything is organisation. The whole
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of life is organisation, conscious or unconscious. Every nation, every
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family, why, even every individual is an organisation or organism. Every
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part of every living thing is organised in such a manner that the whole
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works in harmony. Otherwise the different organs could not function
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properly and life could not exist.
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