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The Individual, Society and the State (A6)

The Individual, Society and the State (A6)

SKU: 9781909798854

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Publisher: Active Distribution
Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher: Active Distribution
ISBN: 9781909798854
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Format: Pamphlet
Size: 4.1 x 5.8
Page count: 20

That slow and arduous liberation of the individual was not accomplished by the aid of the State. On the contrary, it was by continuous conflict, by a life-and death struggle with the State, that even the smallest vestige of independence and freedom has been won. It has cost mankind much time and blood to secure what little it has gained so far from kings, tsars and governments.

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or Bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.

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