Lenin Is Not Comparable To

Men Passionately Desire To Live After Death, But They Often Pass Away Without Noticing The Fact That The Memory Of A Really Good Person Always Lives. It Is Impressed Upon The Next Generation, And Is Transmitted Again To The Children. Is That Not An Immortality Worth Striving For?

But How Do European Railways Manage Without Them? How Do They Continue To Convey Millions Of Travellers And Mountains Of Luggage Across A Continent? If Companies Owning Railways Have Been Able To Agree, Why Should Railway Workers, Who Would Take Possession Of Railways, Not Agree Likewise? And If The Petersburg-warsaw Company And That Of Paris-belfort Can Act In Harmony, Without Giving Themselves The Luxury Of A Common Commander, Why, In The Midst Of Our Societies, Consisting Of Groups Of Free Workers, Should We Need A Government?

The Whole Aspect Of The Universe Changes With This New Conception. The Idea Of Force Governing The World, Of Pre-established Law, Preconceived Harmony, Disappears To Make Room For The Harmony That Fourier Had Caught A Glimpse Of: The One Which Results From The Disorderly And Incoherent Movements Of Numberless Hosts Of Matter, Each Of Which Goes Its Own Way And All Of Which Hold Each Other In Equilibrium.

But Times And Tempers Are Changed. Rebels Are Everywhere To Be Found Who No Longer Wish To Obey The Law Without Knowing Whence It Comes, What Are Its Uses, And Whither Arises The Obligation To Submit To It, And The Reverence With Which It Is Encompassed. The Rebels Of Our Day Are Criticizing The Very Foundations Of Society Which Have Hitherto Been Held Sacred, And First And Foremost Amongst Them That Fetish, Law.

Competition Is The Law Of The Jungle, But Cooperation Is The Law Of Civilization