"in practice these same doctrinaire liberals, when the existence or the stability of the State is seriously threatened, are just as fanatical defenders of the State as are the monarchists" [About Freedom]
Interesting. Sounds like the apathetic and resigned individuals I interact with most weeks.
They know things are bad, but what can they do, except support the system? Tax me harder.
"Their adherence to the State, which flatly contradicts their liberal maxims, can be explained in two ways: in practice, their class interests make the immense majority of doctrinaire liberals members of the bourgeoisie. This very numerous and respectable class demand, only for themselves, the exclusive rights and privileges of complete license. The socio-economic base of its political existence rests upon no other principle than the unrestricted license expressed in the famous phrases laissez faire and laissez passer. But they want this anarchy only for themselves, not for the masses who must remain under the severe discipline of the State because they are “too ignorant to enjoy this anarchy without abusing it.”"
Wow who is this guy? Fascinating read just in the first paragraphs of the first article.
"The 1872 Hague Congress was dominated by a struggle between Bakunin and Marx, who was a key figure in the General Council of the International and argued for the use of the state to bring about socialism. In contrast, Bakunin and the anarchist faction argued for the replacement of the state by federations of self-governing workplaces and communes. Bakunin could not reach the Netherlands, and the anarchist faction lost the debate in his absence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
Interesting...
"Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only
because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for
destruction is a creative passion, too! (Bakunin 1842/1972, 57)"
-P83, [‘Strike out, right and left!’: a conceptual-historical analysis…]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11212-019-09319-4
RE: The Daily Meme #954!