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Application of
Anarchist Theory
To The
Modern-Day

Prison Struggle

By, Sean Swain

This study was prepared as part of a workshop given
by Anthony Rayson, during the Conference on
Anarchist Theory, held at Loyola University, from
April 28 ~ 30, 2007.
APPLICATION OF ANARCHIST THEORY TO THE MODERN-

DAY PRISON STRUGGLE
Prepstes ar dhe Confirrare on Anarchic Tanory,
Chica, Minas
May 2007

Dy Soun Swain, Politi Prisount
‘Tololo rrectonal lnstution
Toledo. Ohio

February 17,7007

FNTRODUCKION

"Wine sss bowey Ta, Tam v0 it, wile theres 8 anand element, Iam
1, winbe rove na soul pron, Tama ner fe”



‘oxen and naked ereanumes, splendor and raiser, waste and eed. Tan told
‘hat sth tat frched wdealisa, wv paime ehis happy, poveryles, crimeles,
sieaiow sold Taw bw tu igh to be behuid we bari «=

Votaurise DeCleyve

“Tier mews nt be ung i nresand the ve Funes of pions, Why
sboshiey evra an rnenbersT Wh ste real ecopomse mare of erie ad
{ie atc definionn af pes of offenders or vii? The people must lear
hat sehen ve offend” the treatarian sae, tix patently nox 30 offense aginst
te jes tha c,h aaa on the prlege of Ue prilge few.

Geocge Jackson

Sosilin Fuguene V, Delx spake out 1 Cincinnati. Obia, opposing US. involvement ia the Gr
World War, He ‘ouended due the government forced the poor m fight and dis to prow the
scoonmicinanest of the wralehy. an ownoral situation. He spear ten year in prison fr speaking bis
sind

‘Acaichist Vollaivine Deteyre ha her ie share’of avers fc voicing ber views, at did ber
<ootemporsy. Fauna ‘scldoan Goltian jd s coat of eur of wort men ak for weeks if
‘efused ~work v9 eo Rr bred refined bread to eke bred

Her nce winds were unered fomia jaca

1s dhe vase Black Paneer Pld Marshal Gooige 1 Jacon, when pion fsa proved inadequate
10 cont his dangerous ideas, ull from te guard ower rife dd heck.

‘Anarcliattemty eal expan such soutins which seo wy inthe fice of the dina,
prevailing vrw of prisons io sociey- the aconzod view that psoas segregate dangerous offenders
fom the vest of ery for soien’s om good: that pisos are an enension cf a benevolent Sane,












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‘hart benevolent Siate is rend and proecer,antetbnion ofthe will of he governed: dt che
‘Seine ws exablih ore atl maine the fees of ich ipividoak that its police exif she
lane, es curt adder eenders, ad ts pista Lock my he pas wo oar public order.
‘lew of ou: preset realy. Angels theory coonevys of pean within he eens of che Amecbist
‘ndersanding of the Sene, fe reaionihip w the individml, che origins of crime, the file of
‘Pelabment od xn endersandng of the force tht berate ti india

‘Toe resulta Anarchlet response, che aplicaion of Asnuch thrry ce current realiny, counters
the rescouary and derouctve forces commenly pervasive in insdredonal confinement



‘Alief Description of the Ouremt Relicy

“Woen jou conuel a man’s thicking you do not bave to wony about his
‘cons. You donot have wo tell him to sand hese or gp yonder He will find his
“proper place’ aad sy in i. You do not necd to send bit wothe tack door. He
‘wil go there withoot being wld In fact. if tere is no beck doo, be will cut ne
for his special benef iseduosion makes ic necessary.”

Carter G Woodson, The Mi Bdbcadao af the Negro

(CMe moet dangerous weapon in the bands of che oppress Ube mind of
‘he opprened..



Seephen Who, J Wrce Wa J Like

“Generlly speshing, pruorde dow mot oeveuqnly men the immediate
decrucsen of a uation. exept when accomplbed by mss hiking . x is
sutended rather to signify » coonhasted plan of differ srnons almned at che
decoction of the exential foundations of life of national goups, with the aim
‘of smuiiasing the groups themselves The objective of cba plan would be
the dsimegraton of the poliscal and social insaretiony, of cultere, language.
and national felings, religion, and the economic existence of rational groups
sand the destruction of pessonal seeunty, bert, nal, dapaty, and even He
lives of the individuals belonging to sock groups Genoenle s decd ayant
individuals, notin thew muividual capacity, but as members cl the nanonal
gmp...”

~Waad Church, Ail ce foi, Save che Man,
(Quoting the definition of genocide

More that 22 maian people reside whim dhe pioot of the Une Soc, aching theo
probeon nod prea wows ves ar controle direty by goverment agocis the segment oe
1F5 popanien wer rin ance operon embers well owes millon

The junio sd prise: eyme of he Gountry proce the Famer wos for weboksale rcie
‘rom th evetepresention of oto i poor arc to the rer of tee pow and
“minorities within the prisons, the same goverpmecot forces ance openly engaged in genocide aginst
‘sina groups now cence thar ame genocide through mae cover mens and expends ope
‘wld dari pox symputinen-—to incode the rewbusoomy let

Prisons have became te prinay tool of populaon couralconfsing minonties and palsicl
ideas for the years of thr produc. This works demographically tothe advanmge ofthe
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ramis quo, keting dawn minevty birth tatt and ihputing minerses wall noves make up the
majorcy. In pobtical yems, this Ups to'entire the eindimance of cthoeranive mad sesconary
governmér inclined to serve the fisarestr@f rik afftuetie, chétwhite cbetcaseivacve
Prisons have Broce tic prim:y to! of ecundae contrat cing ai scam e
snemployed uiddercas fitted by the manipulations of whe mache. Taf of
permits tbe chpimlist chs wo digrem real wieger bi poincing to dhe elliot wnemploped aie.
roncennradiag mode captain the hands of the powesfal few. focreming the gip beroetn ihe
wealery and the worker,
risons have become the primary too of pollca! contol renoving ilions fhm woos Ie, many
Smes perinanenily. The absence of felons alter the cuncomes patil in cost al tions in
the poorest areat. Ax the poor and marginalised are those primarily tageed and harvesed for.
incarceration. primarily from urtaa area. prisons and imprisonment prevent the emergence of
policvally-couscions reperseotacves among the urban poor, sling the portal for revoludcoary
currents among the poorest and chose most benficing from redial socal and political change.
Prisone have bevome che primry tol of socal consol as they crea a permanently disenfranchised
underriset vaed by both the capitals. and the politician to scare and divide the working cases,
eating fear and distur of the “craninal Gement”fabrimtd by ecooamic an political forests ths
vay. exime beremes » diversion of otherwise brary collecive resources sod the werang class
rlinquuches mor pret to the ruling elie wbo promise fle to teat ciminals as enemies 0 be
wsisced and elununated, all while knowingly creating che criminal element of wmarrow with filed
ewoby
‘Dacmiy, ducugh ibe poe of aanced and pluitipdse tars depron nd
mycholippeal dinorion, the modem prisna complex creates predinable ferare cme in enuch che
tame way tht torrures a Abu Grab predsrably created che veers and guerila by aienaing toe
wo were vivimiand, In these erm, tbr prison symems of the US are engaged in the “Abu
Sraibuzacion” of doe poor and margisalaed
Utusoseely, ene of ubis nas Abu Graibuawon, subject to cover mind-yar and calcul geoocide,
jer relesied. seeped in che hawed the Sore infised imo them reached im solouting,
neayw stated us thr wills and minds, programmed wo accep secand-clam chieaship, co ow thelr
‘lacr. to heave a their own worm esemes, Jackies and paws of the social frees waleatbed «pon
hem inthe irs stance to distort them and cree them as they become,
Iris wa lighe of ds grave reality that Anaichis thecry regarding the State and is relcooship tothe
pdivnlual becomes anos applicable







‘THE STATE

~ What happens in every crantry, by all me, and in all eras, chat one man
atuses » hundred thowand aud deprives them of thir hberry? Who would
believe it, if enly es ead of it, and did nor see it? And if only bappened i
sange and disc tands and that x was spoken of, who would nor suppose it
x sororarhat file and made up, not really ue

-Edenne dee Botsfe

“Nothing appetrs more smprising, vo those who conulder harms Ahi with «
philosophical eye. han the easiness with which dhe many are govermed by he
few, and the implcic submiatoa with which men reign thelr own sentiments
and pasioos two those of eat rules..."




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Fe Dowr pan, ele ta aren petsirsend ‘Slim, albjoc tive up power ehey previously
joe el ye Ses ie fp wo
oe bres a ty te np .
“Tho potsciitr ed'poler: Led indy retin wh, “dips sen” So by cxesing & Sam, by
‘cowstlagm cinvoa powen each subject parscpatsfn the abc ac Asda ie
semua weiss ta che cxsblimesr of a Str fs the mee pee He es

‘es poms ergaked nd te ruber wo mak Ce Sa wb Be
"... Where & goversines éxisu. chen the only really organised people are the ihinoricy Par

‘he goverment” id Inde PAM Piezo Prouthon ase, “The governs, of tho

san sve ot bap Tepito Ria nscer rb rg

ar]

Milind Bunin eins “Even to che pure demociacies such as the Uniced Sows and

‘Swlaertnd a pivdeyed ine Ses vas eave majority”

So what isthe mare ofthe Saxe?

“Che Sore) medales in all cur affirs,pinions us fom cradle to grave. It
prscrber al our acions, piles up mourns of Ins and ordinances that
‘dewilder the shrewdest lawyer. It crestes an army of office-holders who sit like
sgiders wn dheir-webs and have never sen the world exept ehrough the dingy
Pines of ther fice windows. The immense and everdacresing ms cat tbe
Sone colecs from the people are never mien: i liver at the erpense of
frre pneraions and meer with all er mighe eward bakripecy. See! Se
‘ummamoust to Shar’: one State seeks m weaken and rain the echer in order £2
fore wpem the Irate, fs policy, ta commercial treien and wo enrich
foo ass epense war today te ural conden... beea 30 year? apply
cf cause of war on band. And vl war rages 3 the supe ze with foreign wa
‘he Se, which wa righaly designed wo bea promectn fr all and expecially
for he weak ba ony bron a weapon of te ich punt he expat
‘be properded agua the properyles =

Peter Kropockin.
‘The Scane, chen, bebives 5 if it is the enemy of the individual of the subject chat che Saxe is
supposed to defend and provset,

“The inueress of the Some and those ofthe individual difer fmndemencaly and
ae anogonisie. Toe Saxe and the palicical and econonic insirioms thar i
suppor can exis aly by fashioning the individual wo their parcilar purpose:
‘walang him to respect Taw and order’ aching him ebedSenoe. submission.
‘niguesdoning feith inthe wisdom and juice of govermoesc bow al. Joyal
serie mod conplese self-sacrifice when the Stas commands ic as io war. The
‘Sane pus ive and i imeress eves above the chic of religion and Gof Tt
[Punishes religious or coniceantoos sreples aguion ndvidlny Becse dere
4s no intvidaaliry wichow Bbery, and Jbery d# be promot mentee
sccborig=

‘Brame Geld enphcnadc
SoS ees —
epee of the ‘opeme =
shale eee or 5 eh ever i wo ir ply by dingrecs

By Si Sajlty by ts craanp ks ovciight lc, and comm
‘he iri i iy, Baie iin eth airy of sel ptservtion"anoed Mix Strer.




fits yakcs dm responses cherwise veted in the subjecr, and nldsmanly makes dhe subject Lot
ible ro camrcise selfrule and sf governance. Lost ot

‘As Willatn Godin sized i. “As long os man ig eld inthe mamignes ofabadience, and binant
» look to seine foreign guidance for direnion of'bis conducr, is undergonding and the igor of his
mind will sleep. Do desi wo raise him wf dhe eneray of which hes cpyble? {mas each him 2 feel
siniself. to bow to no authority, to ermine che principles he ener and wo render co is mind the
1as00 of his conduct” “

Submission yo obedience and the babi of recognising someaae'elm ar the authouity o'er ber, the
rubject loves the capacity for self-deemmicacion. The State hen, in this way, alienate te inital
fom herself in bowing ro an authority ouside of herself the individual becomes, more and more,
neapable of self-direction and dependenc upon an ouside authority t govern her wil.

‘The Stace issposes upon che individual and lessens the individual, chisimpoinon eaking concrete
rms through the Sates ws and the enforcement of those bw:

“The State is force. Nay, iis che silly parading of fore. Ie does noc propose 19
win love or make convers; if pur its Singer into anyching, it docs 20 in an
lunitiendy way; for its exence consis notin pernasian, but in command and
‘compulsion, However mich gaia it may mike away, ix camax conceal che ft
‘that it the egal malmer of oar will. che consant negacion of our liberty. Even,
‘when i¢ commands che good, i makes dhs valuelest by commanding i far every
command slaps Ubeny in the-fce; at soon as the good is commanded, It =
‘ransformed into evil th the eyes of the crue (chat i human, by 20 wens
divine) moralky, of the dignity of man, of Ubery; for man's Wbery. morality,
‘and dignity consis: precisely of doing che good wor becmse be is commanded to
‘buc because he recognizes ie, wills ie and loves it

Mikhail Bakunin.
Ie i this force, chis threat of force which is a the bass of the reladonship berween the State and tbe
sdividal: tis chit force, this compalson that Hits the individual, mits berty—at the expense of
be individual and to theultimate beset ofthe Sate,

“Doubriess che State lerves the individual st free play 2s posible” wnote Max Stier, “only they
just never carn the play o earnest, mum never forget it. The Sate bas never any object bu wo limit
2¢ individual, to ame hic, to subordinate him. to subject him to something general clams only 0
gas che individual is noc alin all and only che clear-cut limitation of me, my Jimitednes. my
avery’

To gover isto dubordinace, o con, tame, to reduce. In this manner, the Sete must limit and
sslave, must subject the individual to force in order to compel thé individual wo recognise the



Me iene ota ae sats Bo Pas te.
‘existing ondet, reser wm every form of vidlence and face, and is efor ase






sipped by che ‘mon indignsen' of te maoricy spin the bere, che
sel eenoe and the publ abel—the msjorty for ote dled in Seate
‘wouklp mained fa dictpine and obedience and sbdeed by the awe of
‘tual in dh home the acho be crc andthe pros."

mums Goldman,

1n this way, the Soe (and the inraions which preserve i) maintains bamogencity of bebrvioy
‘conformiry to enforeed norms. 1t Mims and dominates, viewing Uber and the individual ss feare=
eoenles

“fen when the Suse does good things finally ress on a ab, a gun.ofa prison fares power
tocany iecbrough” remarked Voltaire DeCleyre.

‘Tae role ofthe Stein the mainueance of law forthe prowcico ofthe individual vo longer seed
{ts orignal fuoexon. “The law, which fit made is appearance asa collerion of customs which seve
for the maimenance of socey, is now merely an insoument © keep up the explouauon and
dowinasoa of the indusrious muses by wealthy idler,” wrote Peer Koypothan. “It has wow no
Tonge any civic miso; ts omly misnon sto prec exportancn *

‘The Stare pulls fom the hands of the individual her berry and duty to defend herself and oer
eleae a8 a wvice—a public servic oll: which each indevvual mus support through payment of
‘ae Bat this physical procecon, ju Lik hela proterica the Suite promdes, becomes something
isorted when place! inw the hands of te Sate:

“Detect i service, ke any other service 1x labor both seh and dessred,
and therefove an eroncmic commodicy subject to the law of supply and demu,
ne free marke tha commodity would be furnished at he cox of producoon.
‘The producooe and sale of this commedny are nu mooopolized by the Stave.
‘The Seat, lke almost all mosopobss, charges currant pres Lk alenos all
rmonopelias, x swyplie 2 wenhles, oF nearly worthlen, arucle Just lke the
‘monopelin offood product often Furnubes poison usstad of nuvament, so the
Soe takes advartage of fs monopely of defence to furs sovasun ustead of
‘prowcnea. Ju at the pazons of one pay to be pousuned, so the parrans of the
‘cher pay 0 be enslaved. And the State exceeds all of ws fellow monopoliss in
the exent of xa alainy because it enjoys che wsique jrnlege of compelling all
people wo buy ns product wbether they want or nor *

‘Benjamin Tucker,
‘The Sse, even ats be, relies upon forot and rebes upon the dinishung ofthe odivadual and de
‘individual's Bberey—which ase thaens to both the State's existence and its reason for existence The
Sune forcn the individual to pay for protection and to accept protection, whether the individual
‘wan itor net And mare times than not be “protection” costs ofthe Ste xnvading and imposing
‘upon Use idvidua with the ama the indvidual paid for.

“Whoever ley his bands poo me to govern me is 2 surper and ryran, | declare immy enexy.”
‘some Pere Jeseph Prowihon.

‘Qin of Crise

‘The tdividual ally opsble of exerciang Wbery and shle wa self govem, poses the greatest trex to
the conrawed edeence ofthe Seta Such individuals reader the Se cole.

“The Staeshast contol each subject, reduce the capacity of cach in their abies to self gover and
‘tn thelr aaines, hen, to dbandon the'Sate-The State must inal» sense of dependence iano each
sabjec, asc of confooity and secogitga of ouside authority. It must force wpod dhe individual


somerhing lest chan her bictight and-ceing 2a; wiqueniing subject wip subs wo even
‘yranay and ince and inequaiy ax cage chings may be symemtcally by the Sexe
Ta this way. the Sexe creates dhe mca forces giving se wo rise. ;
“THE REASON MEN'STEAL IS BECAUSE THEIR RIGHTS ARE STOLEN FROM THEM BEFORE
THEY ARE BORN,” procimed Voloirine DeCleyre,

“These ae the thing har make cimioaly, the perv forces of ma. tured |
aside by the inseation of property which tthe gar ecal mina day fe
‘your law which keeps men from using the resources and means of wealth,
Production unles they pry uibuwe to ccher men, ii this and eehing ese
wich i respoosble for all he sacondclaarof cmes and all hove cries of
olence facldeaeally commired while carrying outa stbery.

Voltirine NeCleyre.
So crime, chen. is the result of social inequities to which the exploited and destnwe must react, socal
equines maincained 10 tbe advanage of Ove wealthy through enforcement by the Soe and its awa,
‘As Williams Godwin described, “The fru source of crimes consns in this reumsance, one man's
possessing n abundance that of which another man is descnute"

Ie is the existence of wealth and privilege bescowed ulkimately by the State and ies lnws that crestes
the social forces of povertyand desperzuon and exploistion. As Benjamin Tucker wrote. “Our psoas
‘are fled with crumnals which our virwous Seite bas made what chey ate by ie iniquitous lrws is
grinding monopoliex. and the harrble socal condiclone dha result from chem. We enact many laws
‘hac wanufsceure criminals, and Qhen a few that punish them.”

Peter Kropotkio places the blame for the existence of crime squarely at che feet of the privileged
‘taswn. che capitalise, who rasintaia Uves of mcest and luxury, idle lives dorough the exploitacon of
‘athens and not through thew owe labor



“So long at wr ave aca fen who Ive ut fed thes under dhe pect
‘thar dey ms lead ws, slong ches ies wil alway bea focus of peace to

‘he gener morality He who res is fein dul Ime, who is ways Beat
txerely on gerang new plranae, who by the very baat of he exseace on
know no solidarity. and whe by hs course of Bie cates the vex self
hing. he will wags pune the cone senna pleute tnd dct +
reertung amd hn With ha fll fdr and hs Besa pues Be

will al nbn women and tire, degrade atte rama he pes el

Ins country and res defenders. and, crise he isto cowardly jo murder

this own hands. will have his prrudes murder the choicer of his ngbon when, °
someday, be arid for his daring money-bag. 1

“Thus series is incemaaty bringing ferth beings who are incapable ofan



honorable and industios Me, and who fe fll of ant-social felings. does
homage fo them when miceas crowns Duel crimes sad en the to the
peniesay when they ach”

Prva Kropodan fe

2 the root of ciize & thas Soegscy bl inco the socal order of things aceped by sciny

feorrally as the way things are, and perperasted with the acve particpacion of everyone wishin dis
sor of afhira, the exploited and explolter. So cbuerved Adolphe Qurser, “Experience demons,
in ace. by every possible evidence, this opinion, which ray seem paradoricalw fit, that i society
whidh prepares the crime, and that the gully oce is bat the inserument which exces fo”






‘The socal snuson “prepare the cine, dhe “pervert foross of man,” descubed by Volnirine
DeCheyre: forces pin marion no by the ofr bir by the Scce with its ws and prefereoces fey
she weak, thier the explo.

“Te fe me wo say har goverumeats have commined far more crimes than they have prevented,
couches Rober lagers

‘Se fs the och tration the forces of poverty and injustice and inequality that find thei ign
In the eloitive and sl erving indulgence of wreaky ad privileged opprenors in the maintance
of legished inequity and socal sxxificaion, chen bow is ic that anyooe conld blame the so-called
‘offender, can bold reponsible he poor, wretched, abused, und opprestal who find themselves i such
esperae snag? How can on declare someone soc stated a criminal, n ffender. a “tad man"?

“But who ae the ba men among wi. (Df by the men from wain the Seite
max protect swe mem the criminals, then we know they are not special
‘rears Uke the welf among sheep, but just such men as all of ws, who like
comuaiting crimes a lite a we do, we know thatthe acovity of governreents
wih their cruel forms of punishment. which do not correspand to the present
stage of moralcy thelr prdons, torures .ronosbutes were wothe babarizang of
‘he people han to their culture, aod hence rather w the mulopbeanon than the
ininaion of uch criminals”

Leo Teknoy.
So x mands tha the misperepton of the causes of crime lead to punishment, which lead aldmately
to the muluphcaoon of crime. And that thea, leds ove hock to the eenoas consideration of the
Saues viclence which is at the root of these dymamic: i the Stas vicleore which ulomaialy
ress the sored crimina—the individual who reer the lw ofthe Ste and dors nox 2c
conforainy wah be Sous crs,

“The indvduals valence is called crane, and only by crunk does he bua the State’ authriry
‘when be opines that he State snot above im. bu he above the Sane" coounds Max Sorte
‘Ain it comes bck to the individual a a that wo the St. as htt tothe forces of weal and
prinlegr cc dhe Sete truly represen wich is law aad ses maghe The socalled cruainal i a
{nividal who bas endangered the Sexe by rejecung the ta and its autour over his bekavie
‘Volaiive DeClye summed i up tis way:

“Some die because they cannot eat at all, Pry tll me what these lat have 10
lowe by becomming thieves And why shall hey not became duewa? And the
action of a man who takes the nevessiues which bave been dered him really 2
criminal’ he marally worse than the man who erwin the ela and dies of
starvatiag? | unkot. Hei only» inde more asertve..

“Bu you wil sy, and say rl, Yo begin by taking loves menos to end by
taking evrything and muering, too, very often.’ And in that you draw the
indiconeat aint your ona spun If here is no alternative Derween starving
and sealing, (and for thopsands there is nove) then there is no aleemative
Derween socey/s mfg fe member, of the member denpraing
seciey. Ls society coir fs own sae, Chen: Ye i anewer Sel forall
‘hese people ha robbed nd hind: et cease wm cranes tr”

‘The Kaihue of Pumsaeat

“-Aethey could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body, fu
‘boy if hey canna couse vo some person agaist whan they have spice, will
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abuse bis dog, [saw thar the State was balf-ented, that ic was timid a 2 lone
‘woman with her allver spocas, and thar Ir dmx know fe fends rom it foes,
and Tost all my remaining respect for ic and pitied ic... *

~Heary David Thoreau, On Chil Dirbodionce

“Soul breakers (complete olson) exis because the sucbories Inow that
such conditions would drive chem to the breaking point. bar when I resolved
that they would nor congier my wil, I became sconger thin they were. |
‘understond them herter than they undesstood me. No longer dependent upon
the things of ube world, I relly felt free for che fest time in my We. In che past 1
Inad been like my yailers;1 bad parnued the goals of epitaime America. Now I
‘bad a higher freedom... Even so the way lwas teated told me alot abour those
‘who devise such punishment. Low chem well...

Hoey P Newson, Revalucionary Suizade

Beunne che See and its apoloyin wrongly conceive of crime onginsting io the fruky-wnlled
vwasioal, in the errant pero, in die wranonal and umoral offender, the Sexe prescribes
‘punichnien at sanitions for those who do noc cunform their behavior and do not subordinate ”
themselves to the dictates of the Almghry Soe. The State and apelogans canaceimayjoe tht the
‘origins lie moc an the Siuky ind~ndual but io the corrupeed and fauky social creummcnce that the
Stace itself generates, relying. 2 it does, upon che dynausics of force and repression and fear and
‘voutrul of the individual, the reduction of the individual and the taiog of the general public as 8
whale

The State, givan the wealryn rene, imposes iracional expertsncns upon is subjects:

No peuyers, no legal enactments, wall ever nid sociey of crime. If they would,
there lave ben prayers enough and preachers enough and laws enough and

prisons enough to have done x loog ago. But pray that the amacoa of
Bavianon will cease, Wil it cease? Enact that water should freene 2c 100

degrees heat Will it freeze? And no tore will men be sane and bones ana ju

when they are campeled fo lve my an nane, dishonest, and unjust socery,

‘wnen the erwal wperstion of the very wlements of their being is warred upon

by srarutes and institutions which must produer outbursts desmucive both to
themselves and ethers.

“Log, would say that anyone who wished 1 obliverse cruslty fom the
‘charzcter of anotber mun himself show no cruelry; one who would taach regard

tie rights of odhers must hinslf be regardfal. Yer the sry of ele and pron is

‘the story of the lash, the ino, che chain, and every toteure dha the fesdlsh :
ingenuuty of che non-criminal cas can devise by way of reaching criminals ro

be good! To teach rien to be good, they are kopt in aires cell, made to sleep

‘on narrow planks, to lock at he sky through iron gras, 10 ex food the revels

‘heir palates, and demoys ther namachs, bartered and broken down in body

‘and sonl: and chis is what they call reforming weal”

Voleauiine PeCheyre
Because the Stace operates through force, imposing law upon its sabjecs, if must rely upon ics
sancdious 10 re-habimuate those who have. by their actions, rejected the authority of the Sate.
‘Through this dynamic of force and sinccons, then, the Sete mus respond to those who reject cs
n
‘ecco npn ici én cringe rnpnee may baa
ae : oedema
TBeboldes ti relimer on fex and foree the Sose amt cota upon the individual Being prevented
from mbeling ‘at count upon fear of exncrion aed piso and penidhment. mist ph barber ws
ffearcf pmisheent provesincBocive!
“Tike ter has no ain wo meals epece” Pena Kropodkn aor :

>.(Srpecinons znd Inkl finaly, ie the ews fox promi of persons. |,
(or the panidhmect and pueveiion of ‘ximes The dear of pubes ever

yet restained a marderer. He who would Kil his neighbor, fir‘revenge of
‘Recent, does nor beat his brains about the consequences and evfay nrerderer
hero hat had the firm conviction that he would escape profecation. If
‘murder were dechred not’ punichble the number of minders would mot
increase even by one; rather ir would decrase to the exeot murders are at
resent commun by habimal rmials who have been coxruped in prison”

Pere Kropotkin.
Se injuice and rucry which lw nacurally fom this coercive celadonship berween the See and
‘the individual, by rliane of the Sase upon force and far and sancdocs, are at the root of the
smuldplicadon f rene The wus socal sys, bail af i upon laws frvoring the explo 20d
idler and oppresee, crests the eximinal the fender who mjc the authority of the lew. the
lieder diered and compe by social forces that ve 0 explted hen as 3 commodicy tat be.
iews othex a canmodiiessnd bores his own carrow 2iflomee.

In either inasce the abbey of the individ) of ber digaky and humaniry and aelfeuiency
‘crens this ciminaliy, an ougrowth ofthe socal forces wleabed by the Sur's covert boclny
toward Mbery andthe individu, Uknatly tbe Sate cud and ony and repression becomes

“There & someching in injusdos, io cruciy,” wartes Robert lager, “Which tends vo defeat toelf,
‘There never were so many tanrs fa Englan as when the maior war drown and quarered, whes be
‘was tornared in every pombe way. —when his limbs. torn and bleeding, were given to the fry of
snobs or exhibited pled by ples or hang in chains. The fghsful pnishmenns produced incense
Inaered of goveroment, and waltrs increased woe they became powerfil enough to decide what
‘measca was and who the wales wert and wo inficr the same torment on other.”

‘The edtence of the See and the cdmence of cme go tgetber. The Sates sclution wo crime and
‘criminality becomes pare of the problem. The abolition ofthe Seate, che abolition of auchorrcyaleads 0
‘he abolition of cime and cimimairy.

“The State's iuelf the mos gigumic criminal oaant. Ik manufscnes criminals much faster than St
‘Ponies them.” observed Benjamin Tucker. “We look forward wo the ulimane disappearance f he
‘neceny of force even for the parposes of sepreing crise”

Lbsaion from Foroeand Fear

“Wikia a sycem which denkes the edsunee of talc human righ, far wands
to be the onder of the diy: Fear of imprisomment fear of tora, fea of deat.
‘ear of locng rend fnily. propery or means af ivehood, fear of powers.
far of fclation, Ser of fare A more insidious form of for is Char wich
‘maiquerades a commen sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless,
sncigaiete, ox fe and‘iall, Gly aces of courige which ba to prtacrve
SLL Sin oe
‘conditioned | render the iin rule of the principle thar might’makes ri

‘free themselves from dhs Gxervating miasmsa of fear, Yer even tinder the most
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“You ge your freedom by lentog your énamy knew that yout do enyig wo
‘Se your freedom: then you'll gets. Tes the ily way youll pic Re Ws you ger
‘at kindof aninnde... bey ell you da extn, or mbes e aces
‘cared ora radical, Bat when you ray radia Wag efstugh ante people tbe
ke you. youl peyourfrendam. :

204 perpetuate explolasion and povery and inogaity, andthe feces tht mulpy ce taeagh
ccueky and diorcon of the itvidual areal Usked to tht edimnon of the Sate, is Ines end
‘ocrape rebogniion of propery. The abliton of the Stam, ten, woud abaish those forces thar
eur aime

Volricine DeCleyre prodaimed. “Abo the lrw-this is, sblsh peiege, aod crite wil sols
loelE” With the abolidon of the Sear and authority, each individual woul buomoe hee w enprge in
‘Sohancary swociion to meer the demands of his own survival ad the demands fr colactvese shal
swell,

*--flja tanita Kingdom, aswell as in human sociery,coopetica—et opposed to inaroecine
sife and scruggle ~bas worked for the survival and evluica of the specs, [Kropodin]
emonscrared that only mmnal aid and vohi=ay cooperatior—aer the enniptent ll-dewaog
‘Sane can create the bess fora fee individual and ssociacionl fe” wrote mies Goldman,
Milhail Balen concurs, “Man becomes man. and his homanity ecomes cowscous and rea only
‘in sociery and by the joint activi of socery. He frees himsel¥ fam the yola of exemal nature cay
by jolor—dhac is, soclemry “labor: i alan is capable of making he stor of de earth fer the
evolution of mankind: but without sich ouzraa} Bheraon nether inellecaal per moral Berton
sre posible” .

In this free re-organization of saciery, free of an oppressive Same, the freedom of each reinforces the
Tbumianity and dignity and freedom of the other, t Balamnin further cbeervex: “The tpare fre men
seround me snd the desper and brouer their Seedom ix so much oops, Preadr, and more
‘powerful is my freedom too. On the echer hand, every enltvemers f en. atthe sue tne 2





imitation of my freedom. or, wha isthe mame ching. = gating of my himan ettinoe by fs bead
So fe ie dee Sve mon of i fa thet! one nafemensand in the inne of
a mur geck out the mene theme fda tag slower of She See is lew

recognicion df Frupery, sg she Inuron, iemhliy. mod cxplotaion th maplty Sow fon tt
Talia:


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Pie ios di so-called coco ra The wy tena eee we
is recognition that ach | poses: Pose Tt Begins with a belief in one's germ aumboricy
SESTEST itn weocay tly need Ss Sone -ais es con” Pome
‘Goldman procisinied indivi] snd cllrtve, esi his eheancipation fam exchoviey nd Som the
it in i" (Epi wed)

“Tae mote Ghe seve resales tate wil no Joager fe a shee, as exes
fal He frees himcif and shows the way to others. Freedom xad slavery are
smezal act Therefore te ft thing ito iy to youre 1 all no loper
accep the fie ofa save 1 sal nox obey arde at sch bursa bey them
‘when dey are in coir with my mcience™

Mohandas Grodhi. .

(Conscious and aware ofthis own power and sjctng auhoiny a the slavery that i 2s, iunemaly
heed former sbjecs begia to work toward ther exer aud complete liberation. unpunng
‘cher in the proces. As Peter Kropotkin described:

“Wen of courage, willing mot only ro speak bux to act, pure characters who
‘prefer prison. ocle and death wo a ile thar contadicn principles: bold macures
‘Who know tit in order to win one must dare, hese are the sdvanand-guatd
‘who open the fight long before the masse are ripe wo lif the banner of
ngarrecion openly and to seck theis igh, armas 1m had In the mdse of
‘complaining. elking, disousmg, comes 2 mutinoas deed by one or more
pesos, which incarates the lougings ofall”

Such “coursgeous charani” make tssurecico aod Grade wongous subverting the teu thet
auton rie upon in order © coxa! indivduals and populacons The spirit of rejecting asnbeny
spreads and it sm the refus of submusnon tha the od unde: rntually save. As Besysmun Ticker
relates, “Power feed co is spoil. and dies when 10 vcaims reise tbe despoed Tey at
perniade i to death: they cant vorrt vo deaths they can't sors it ta death bo bey can avy same
‘etm death” Emphais aide)
“The withdrawal of consent and cooperion brings about the cllapr of the Sea

(7Pse day ater the revohuion” wee Unig) Fabri, “vo ane should bave the prow the
sconomic wherewithal to expla th bor of another...”

‘THE ANARCHIST RESPONSE. APPLICATION OF ANARCHIST THEORY TO THE
CURRENT REALITY

“Persoos in power should be wary careful how bey dea) with a man who cares
necking for sennal pleanacs nothing for riches nothing for comfort ar praise
or promecion, ba simply dumrmined wo do what be baicwes to be sighs. Hts
1 dangerous dnd wocomforable eneny. because his badly, which you om abways
‘conquer. gives yoo s0 He parchase ou his sul."

- Professor Gilbert Murray, Ondond University, Abert fournsal
“The Soul Aste Arid Howto Deal With
* ..The wall a refole.. joes wo Sopiss cat cael emcees,
not of cases tt of pepe preg eer of
Imusian cxisence.... thie ‘together dampire, Rot into they io
Senetattnlecaneant teat remmeneties
“Toe effect of tls mudden awareness, this eulden ruldon of consumes Isto
produce. = pervasive and tageor desire for radical change. bed on the mew
tonight, artiing tn ls simply, chs the condions of fe hat Bad seemed
immucable aa fer all.be changed
“Limieations char were formerly accepted all at once become ioeoleble.. The
will co act ie bom. Ie is a8 if people exerywhere were saying: Look, bere it
sumeching we can da or have. or be, simply by acting. Then wat have we been
waving for? Lee ws act
“Thos, a¢ any rate, devatbes the sate of mind ofthe modem wsurgent, the
‘sverilla ghee, whatever bis slogan or his cause and his sere weapon, above
ard beyrind any question of srategy an tactics or techniques of ieguar warfare,
ss nothing tore than the ability © inspure chs sate of tniod in others. The
slefeat of the malary enemy. the averirow ofthe government, ate xecondary
2:44 10 the sense thar they come lster The primary effort ofthe goeril sto
snalitate she popultion,wathout whose cunsent no goveramenr can sand fo a
aby.
“The guernila is sibwesive ofthe exisong onder m that he isthe disemmotor
‘ut revoluciunary dens: his arin lend foee vo is doctrine and show the wy 0
radical change ‘Yer would be an error to consider bi ax being apart from the
sad bed nt revaloion He Nimwelf ls created by the plincl imate in which
tevolunin becomes posable, and is Ainwelf at och an expresnon ae be is 2
de popula wall wand auch change.”





Robert Taber, The Warof dhe Flas:
A Study 10 Guerrilla Wartere

Objeevely. the curent penn populton represents & nen of several conversing pouots Those
ond witha ths esr are ineat fen those mot victimized bythe forces of de Sate ad 13
Semualist owners abuse and ans elviaed, sccepring the tle ofthe forces of reacon as ineviabe,
Simohamony shy sane populsoon ws composed of the same elemens dat the fcsa’ poo,
proseenron., soins, und leystirures all deemed the greatex potential. pola hres o che curent
syste: the valtvduals wh have, ws yc and nite way, kel in narrow slots, rejected
‘he vulty ofthe law or application other.

ion th “offender” leey one duasmed since bird, formed and shied by the forces of poverty
and explovation and proactive repression, bor apd bred to know i place ands, in some Linked
‘rey vebaletl and forgon hs plser ye withour necesariy rejecang the right of Sate auton 12
pr ha tack a.

Fox the Azarchis, for oar who rejern the Se, laws, andthe fc forces of cpa which the
State ulomately screen the plewocr represen chat individual momabaped by top barber of
‘epvreanens, che cleren exprenion of the rally of ourdlive odinence. No ont hatter gpeed
Oke crue lace of the Sac So, for the Anais he prison Conpiox repress the oalnag grt
‘where an enive population, an try of the went oppremed sd postal mee ardent lest te
<Gtse of revoluaon are waschowed by dhe thousands —Genpowtand abd dred bec to covert
‘muna coor, corvere, and ealrural genocide,

“Thus any, absent any other meervetion beat to the fscia's mind cour and genocide without
(perceiving any ocher aleacive. Having been rendered powerle in every encounter with every
Inecieison supporting the curren fc order, the prooner his sever bad any expenicoce in the


‘cxarcec of hi or ber own power $0, within Gis cobund, the single mos important coneibasic
‘Std Anarchien con provide uj such « prisoner popeliion s ax aterative to sesceionary sist
the fd of seng tot te tse can do ox eve or be—the once of iret salon.

Thi Anatehiot dg Sitting snd dseinating the wrvohatioony tea. the framework of one
eration, proves the prisons, mabing ber or him opable of aikng ther profound and anger
queron th dgulry imporaas quesson i the hinawy of human odstence: “What cao we do abo
Ie tls way. Acarhlsn prods prisoners the ides of "sumethiag we can dey or hve, ab
siaply by acigg Theo what have we buen waiigg fr? Let ws aed"

1m this conto: a previously dinrmed and oppressed people recognize the poten w» change dh
circumsanoss of ther own Hives, condicons that bey previouly viewed a rpurable ercumstact
od conditions of ted Inge communities, and they re infised with a completly new way of see
{he world and is operzaon.

‘The prisoner beoanes armed, dangerous with ies and awarrnrs aus conscious of er ex his om
ovential. Bot more impartandy sil the prisons berumes aware ofthe potratal of cle me prot
The Anarehis ingpies in prisoners a pew sae of ood and unolls 4 bebet wn hberauon, frei,
new revohusouary idea Un this way, the Anarchist sans effcrowely steals guevills simang th
prsourr populanna awung thr dave popubsune dusemausins of the: tewdubcaay ideal whe at
formed nox jus by thes egporwe w Uh idea uf Auarcunm but hy be sper ioe af oppreo ate
‘ral roped by the See

‘As Robert Taber wiot of the guerila.“Linwccisas that were foimesly aurpted all we wthe beens
swtcleble,. the wail w acris bor..."

‘The pracecr, the slve, previouly cut upew the cam beap by be uppresaive machinery of tbs
fascist Ste. grows ino ew capacines for seifderamausrin, sf rule, att the enpewerisest «
thers by mnepiring in thes this new ste find by tiv way, the Ansmchos beromes Ou ibe
fenneriy-sibjigeed popalaions imalg beanon coup amuog the cipoves tha the Sax
previously beld in couple say, mbjecing them at will'wo cukunl gcoorde and complet
Dvchelogia and sous disarmament Bat now, with the wxefvensow «i tbe Aturvhiet new am
revohmonny apive cdure bepas to ake reer and fourth. Gar subwasive othe Sea's genera
‘And. agus, to reference wo Reber Taber. “The defeat uf the enenry, the uverthnme of the
goverment are secondary rash ince sense that hey come later The pruauy afore ao mulsate
the populatinn, wicbout whose coment no goverment cau sand fa 2 day"

‘A mlied prison populacca composed of indnnus empowered by he Auarchati ideal eugaged
‘outual aif and voluntary amiation and avoperaoce, cape of self gprrasance aod tepid wi
the maintenance of their own cule, bas the powenoal w render ampoteat the Sus oppressive
‘machinery, to undermine the power ofthe Stat’ system of sancoons to undue the bare che baa
‘Sate would ocherwise impose pen is passive and seceting capaves,

‘And wrebout areal threst of smocious, without the imposinon of effective punishment. wichout real
‘cence of fs owa prison symem and i capcve populatiaa, the power of prisan and poishmect snd
the enforcement ofthe iw a bande general level is efecivey abled.

Miliacing the prisoner popolion, enpowering and lbesing prisoners with the revolutionary
‘ou and arming them withthe teks fr their own self organization and mrmal ald ubimately robs
the Sour ond the facet foro of market pial of ene of primay and nesesary comport aoe
fia mon coca pllare The power to pnd.

Such s eke seve move Gon the dies and smmedinte aint of heracig psec also may



(caring the prion. isso revahsicunry acodemics) miomaciclly opens wb grater “ror sqacx"
‘roughour the exces soci ender: diverts sutesion and resources of the epeeor to deal wth the
dangerous, Noramry tent within cs conoenurtion camp: makes the system of expleicaion nd
‘expansion and oppression more monistaisable hastening it ineviable cllapae.
Anarchiew, engaged in dhe medeaiay prea squggle prform necesary and esseatal
revolutionny fiméGons in thé eubversios aad defeat of fimfcal frcit forces aid tbe cretion of a
‘oew order, cme where the inrtinzions ofthe of8 order canna; sand This Anarehist engegeent st
an elective «outibusitm to the next revoluriom, a fooriete to dhe eggle over the reactonary foes
of faster. Bi fet Fundamental bass



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