Those who have little or nothing in common with the collectivity will not hurt the association by seceding, but will, on the contrary, eliminate a source of friction, thereby promoting general harmony. The vast difference between the anarchist concept of freely accepted authority in the exchange of services which is the administration of things , differs fundamentally from the authority of the state, which is the rule over its subjects, the people . The same applies when I agree to paint the mechanic's room. The reciprocal exchange of goods and services is a limited, not a personal, cooperative relationship which automatically excludes dictatorship. But the state, on the contrary, is an all-pervading apparatus governing every aspect of my life from conception to death, whose every decree I am compelled to obey or suffer harrassment, abrogation of rights, imprisonment and even death.
People can freely secede from a group or association, even organize one of their own.
But they cannot escape the jurisdiction of the state. If they finally do succeed in escaping from one state to another they are immediately subjected to the jurisdiction of the new state. Replacing the State Anarchist concepts are not artificially concocted by anarchists. They are derived from tendencies already at work. The anarchist theoreticians limited themselves to suggest the utilization of all the useful organisms in the old society in order to construct a new one.