They starve because governments cannot organise any venture that serves the people. They cannot organise the fair production and distribution of food. The idea of their remoteness is never more firmly instilled by governments than in time of war. We would never have been in trouble were it not for Churchill and his ilk. We will never rid ourselves of poverty and war unless we realised that we have these social conditions because we have governments.
Governments are in charge.
They make the laws and they enforce them with the violence of their police, so the society we have is the result of their rule. Governments cannot evade responsibility by saying the social evils are our own fault, although they will do so as long as we allow them to exist and be in control. Left alone we shall not produce the social evils and so we must see to it that there are no governments to interfere with us. We must see to it that we rule ourselves. I had not felt the presence of the Grim Reaper, but one evening I caught a glimpse of the shadow cast by his scythe.