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A Different Conception Of Society, Very Different From That Which Now Prevails, Is In Process Of Formation. Under The Name Of Anarchy, A New Interpretation Of The Past And Present Life Of Society Arises, Giving At The Same Time A Forecast As Regards Its Future, Both Conceived In The Same Spirit As The Above-mentioned Interpretation In Natural Sciences. Anarchy, Therefore, Appears As A Constituent Part Of The New Philosophy, And That Is Why Anarchists Come In Contact, On So Many Points, With The Greatest Thinkers And Poets Of The Present Day.

Either The State For Ever, Crushing Individual And Local Life, Taking Over In All Fields Of Human Activity, Bringing With It Its Wars And Its Domestic Struggles For Power, Its Palace Revolutions Which Only Replace One Tyrant By Another, And Inevitably At The End Of This Development There Is ... Death! Or The Destruction Of States, And New Life Starting Again In Thousands Of Centers On The Principle Of The Lively Initiative Of The Individual And Groups And That Of Free Agreement.the Choice Lies With You!

Of All Parties I Now See Only One Party- The Anarchist- Which Respects Human Life, And Loudly Insists Upon The Abolition Of Capital Punishment, Prison Torture And Punishment Of Man By Man Altogether.

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?

It Is Only By The Abolition Of The State, By The Conquest Of Perfect Liberty By The Individual, By Free Agreement, Association, And Absolute Free Federation That We Can Reach Communism — The Possession In Common Of Our Social Inheritance, And The Production In Common Of All Riches.