A Standing Army Is A Standing Menace

Miss Goldman Is A Communist; I Am An Individualist. She Wishes To Destroy The Right Of Property, I Wish To Assert It. I Make My War Upon Privilege And Authority, Whereby The Right Of Property, The True Right In That Which Is Proper To The Individual, Is Annihilated. She Believes That Co-operation Would Entirely Supplant Competition; I Hold That Competition In One Form Or Another Will Always Exist, And That It Is Highly Desirable It Should.

I Think It Can Be Shown That The Law Makes Ten Criminals Where It Restrains One.

What I Say Is, That The Real Non-resistants Can Believe In Direct Action Only, Never In Political Action. For The Basis Of All Political Action Is Coercion; Even When The State Does Good Things, It Finally Rests On A Club, A Gun, Or A Prison, For Its Power To Carry Them Through.

Private Enterprise Manages Better All That To Which It Is Equal. Anarchism Declares That Private Enterprise, Whether Individual Or Cooperative, Is Equal To All The Undertakings Of Society.

Socialism And Communism Both Demand A Degree Of Joint Effort And Administration Which Would Beget More Regulation Than Is Wholly Consistent With Ideal Anarchism; Individualism And Mutualism, Resting Upon Property, Involve A Development Of The Private Policeman Not At All Compatible With My Notion Of Freedom.