The Labor enquirer., 1886-01-23
BAk0UNINE.
zeno" Engages in a Bout
With Liberty J" a Bost-
ing Journal.
What Said the Great Anarchist
Concerning Drum Shops
and Chnrches9
A Discussion on the Operation Of Nat
tural Laws-A Soft Soap
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tural Laws-A Soft Soap
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For the Enquirer.
The following from Liberty
It is difficult to believe in tie honesty
of sZeno," the State Socialist, when he
bases a two column article in The Dem
yer LABOR ENQUIRER on The assumption
9hat Bakounine IN his God and the
State" fayors the arbitrary closing oi
dram shops and churches. aZenor
quotes this sentence: In substituting
for the It once illusory and brutal en-
joyments of bodily and i,piritual licen-
tiousness the eDjoymentst as refined as
they are abundant, of humanity devel-
oped in each AMI all, She Social Rev
olution alone will have the power to
close at the same time all the dram
shops and all the chuches.n This shows,
"Zenon asserts, that Bakounine was not
an opponent of the state as such, but
only wanted to substitute a rev state
for the existing states. Now, the con-
text of Bakounine's remarks on this
point shows conclusively that the idea
of closing dram-shoI and churches bv
authority never entered his head. He
explains that the working people now
have no escape from the. drearIness of
their lives, narrowed by poverty and
drudgery, except By debauGhery
their bodies in the dram-shops and of
their minds in the churches. But the
Social Revolution, he claims, by abol-
ishing poverty, and Grating wide
range of enioyments for the people, will
take away the patronage of the dram
shops and the churches, ind thus result
in their closing. This is his meaning,
perfectly plain to any man who under
stands English. / venture 10 assert
that no mau in America, except Zeno,"
got the idea from reading "Goti and the
State" that its author.fayored the prohi.
bition of dram-shops and churches. And
l don't more than half believe that
"Zenoo did. 1t looks very much as if
'Zeno," fearing the effect of Bskounine's
tremendous onslaught on State Social
ism, felt the necessity of combating
him, and saw no other way to do it sue
cessfully than to attribute to him opin-
ions which he never thought of champ pi-
oning. + .l-s
I never asserted 'sthat l}akounine was
not an opponent of the state as SUCH"
l said his language proves that IN estab-
fishing Anarchy he would employ the
most complete despotism, in his meth
DDS. e..
Power" and result" are words of
different meaning; Liber!y's attempt to
use them INTERCHANGEABLE will fail. One
thing is to be substituted for another, by
something with power" That some
thing is called Revolution which con-
sists of riots, and the plan of dividing
society up into lists checked off for assas-
sination, as punishment for seeking hap
piness according to old methods not
sanctioned bv Anarchists. Can coercion,
compulsion or authority be found in
riots2 AS authority never entered his
head" his conception Of riot must be
something resembling picnic My
conclusions are supported by other lines
from Bakounine, but Liberty leaves
them out.
until then. the people taken as a
whole will believe; and if they have no
reason to believe, they will at least have
the right ?"
Why should rational man say that a
right will be enjoyed until certain
time, unless the right ceases at that
time!
Churches must be changed into
schools of human emanctpation," is still
more support.
And whatklnd of schools? Those in
which the caild will be educated in al
most entire absence of liberty, answers
Bakounine.
Liberty, please read "God and the
State" again and if you don't like it,
translate it once more.
What power under Anarchy retains
the children in public schools and sets
the time for freedom to begin Who
shall say when an apprentice is compe-
tent to serve the: public; or when q
doctor shall be turned loose or when
youth is fit for society,"
An adult, ignorant of a true plan OF
association, would seem as unfit for 80
clety as halfgrown youth with equal
lack of knowledge yet the adult devel-
opes best when all authority is removed
but in the youth arises instincts OF free
dom as the fruit of his despotic surround
ings. - 1a H Z a.
Saws Liberty again: Anarchy is not
an institution, but rather the sworn en-
emv of all institutions. Its essential
mission is the disintegration of ,institu-
tons. wherever found. An institution
implies authority and force. Anarchy
poises itself on consent. Every insti-
tuted machine denies liberty. Liberty
is the life principle Of Anarchy; hence,
liberty and the Institution are natural
enemies"
How about the schools in which no
erty is absent? Previous to the above
Liberty had answered several inquiries
concerning the disposition of lepers and
small po1 victims, and other hard ques-
tons. Here is the answer;
/"Put away all childish puzzles, dean
friends, into your intellectual toy-boxes'
Stop your sally conundrum.making, and