By P. J. Proudhon
ISBN-10: 0486433978
ISBN-13: 9780486433974
ISBN-10: 0838310052
ISBN-13: 9780838310052
ISBN-10: 0879680091
ISBN-13: 9780879680091
ISBN-10: 1602060932
ISBN-13: 9781602060937
ISBN-10: 8888849653
ISBN-13: 9788888849652
Proudhon's vintage exposition of individualist anarchism, now again in print after decades, within the first-class John Beverly Robinson translation.
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In consequence antagonists, and seek an arbitrator. It is these interests, far more than the army, which form the strength of the Government. Also, observe, the Government has made itself the grantor of mines, of canals, of railroads, in just the same way that the Court, before '89, sold the ranks of colonel and captain, as well as clerical benefices. I can believe that all the personages who have taken char�e ? f affairs . since 1830 remained pure, except one; but IS It not eVIdent that if, through the remarkable integrity of French character, peculators are rare, nevertheless peculation is organized: it exists.
No, Association is not a directing principle, any more than an industrial force. Association, by itself, has no organic nor productive power, nothing which, like the division of labor, competition, &c, makes the worker stronger and quicker, diminishes the cost of production, draws a greater value from materials, or which, like the administrative hierarchy, shows a desire for harmony and order. To j ustify this proposition, I must first cite a few facts as examples. Then I shall prove that, on the one hand, Association is not an industrial force, on the other, as a corollary, that it is not a principle of order.
The wonders announced by these two prophets have been known for cel1turies. We can see the influence of that efficacious grace, of which the organizer of the Series dreamed ; that gift of divine love which the disciple of Saint Simon promised to his followers; cor rupt as it was, lawless as the revolutionaries of '89 and '93 have left it to us, we can follow its oscillations. at the Stock Exchange and in our markets. Let the Utopians awaken from their sentimental ecstasies, let them deign to look at what is passing about them, let them read, listen, experiment; they will see that what they attribute with so much enthusiasm, one to the Series, another to the Trinity, another to devotion, is nothing but the product of the economic forces that were analyzed by Adam Smith and his successors.