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4 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1889)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry4 and id is 1 raw text is: March, 1889. POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY. SCIENTIFIC ANARCHISM. IN ANARCHISM we have the extreme antithesis of social- ism and communism. The socialist desires so to extend the sphere of the state that it shall embrace all the more important concerns of life. The communist, at least of the older school, would make the sway of authority and the routine which follows therefrom universal. The anarchist, on the other hand, would banish all forms of authority and have only a system of the most perfect liberty. The anarchist is an extreme individualist. Using the words of the famous revolutionary formula, he would secure equality through liberty, while the socialist would secure it through fraternity. The anarchist holds that the revolt against authority, which began in the field of religion with the Protestant reformation, and which was extended into the realm of politics by the revolutionary movement of the last century, will end, when carried to its logical and necessary issue, in the abolition of all government, divine and human. He subscribes to the doctrine contained in the opening sentences of the Dec- laration of Independence. He also claims that men who, like Jefferson ' and Herbert Spencer, express great jealousy of state control, would, if they were logical and true to their principles, become anarchists and advocate the complete emancipation of society. 1 The Declaration of Independence contains numerous internal evidences to show that, were Thomas Jefferson living to-day, he would be a pronounced anarch- ist. Liberty (the organ of the Boston anarchists), vol. ii, no. 5. The anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. Article by Benj. R. Tucker, in Liberty, vol. v, no. 6. Volume IV.] [Numberr.

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