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reformers.) And of course; if you LOSE obeyed, to be dashed to pieces on the in a vote, which in all likelihood you will, rocky mountainside below.” The mental It Rests on You! whatever it is you were objecting to and concept of the propriety of these orders, voting against will now have even more OR the fear of the tortures that might ere is one thing - and only one - power because it has been ratified by result from an individual’s, refusal to I that the State really and truly does “the will of the people”. In other words, obey them, combined with the inability fear. And no, it’s not the use of as long as you play the statists’ game, the of any single person to know whether violence against itself or any of its State will win over the long run the same the others would stand with him or not “citizens” (if it really deplored the latter, way that the “house” wins over the long in his refusal, all contributed to an it wouldn’t use so much violence against run when people gamble on roulette irresistible exercise of power, that, at them itself; and as for the former, the wheels. There’s enough of an edge in the base, ONLY rested on those victims’ government: is ARMED TO THE odds for the “house” that it keeps own attitude and resolve. TEETH and only chafing restlessly most amassing -money - and how much it This State and all its myriad incredible of the time because it doesn’t have amasses is directly related to the number tyrannies, likewise msts on you. nearly enough opportunities to try out of people who walk through the door Volume 3 Number 2 Spring/Summer 2002 £1.00 its latest big-time bullying weapons on and play the game. Fred Woodworth even pitifully organised and armed The only thing the “house” fears when sectors of the populace.) it comes to roulette, is that people will [This piece originally appeared as part of These days the State doesn’t even fear stop walking in the door at all and “From the Editor” in THE MATCH! dissent much. Sure, they’d prefer there playing the game. So it provides lots of (Issue 94, Summer 1999, pp. 2-3). not to be any, and they’ll intimidate and incentives to get people to do that: free Contact THE MATCH! at P.O. Box harass and persecute dissenters, but drinks, shows, scantily-clad girls, tour 3012, Tucson, AZ 85702 USA]. that’s only to stay in shape, so to speak. packages with low-priced hotel rooms, Besides, the actual enforcers are always availability of prostitutes, and, of course,

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From 1936, when Span and the C C ay you live in interesting dishonesty and deceit, lies and evasion, lI7en.’.d was published, becoming War times” is a saying much the elites carry outtheir murderous work Cammetztag/f0rAmtranz'.tm for the duration he anti-terrorism legislation enacted engage in arson are a mere fraction of animal This gives us an immense and largely 1 uoted and oft attributed of ‘Statecraft’, of robbery and self of the 2"‘! World War and Freedom ever N in the USA, Canada and Britain is a rights supporters. Their ideas or their actions, untapped power. Change consumption 3 to the ancient Chinese. Since September aggrandisement. However depressing it since. It was with Freedam many frontal attack upon civil liberties. (or both) are not popular, so they seek to patterns, you change the economy. In the act may be, we must conclude that they do Anarchists had their first introduction to Such attacks must be resisted. We must force themselves down people’s throats. of changing consumption, you change l 11'h 2001 we have indeed been living in l so with the consent of the majority of the movement, and it was the Freedom oppose ANY move by the State to increase Now look at a movement which is society, and thus eventually, how it is interesting times‘. Disastrous times for I l- peace loving peoples the world over, and the governed. There have been enough Press who provided a host of reading its powers over us. But our opposition is of transparent. Here it is the State that is governed. Our right to consume what we particularly disastrous times for exposés of the facts relating to graft, matter not easily available elsewhere. an ethical and not of a practical nature. What entwined by contradictions. The dissidents, want, invest, live and work where we want, is innocent civilians in Afghanistan. The corruption and abuse of power within Vernon Richard’s legacy to the do I mean by this distinction? In practice, ‘being open and above board in their beliefs essential to this society. Nothing could be spokesperson for the American military- government in the popular press and on movement is the books, pamphlets, and this legislation could have little effect upon, and actions, make all the surveillance come more legal md less confrontational, than industrial complex, one George Bush satirical programmes on television to magazines he has produced or which he us, we oppose it because it is morally wrong. to naught. The authorities would look rather choosing to do what we wish in these areas. junior, threatens military action against ensure that at least some of the political helped inspire. * “Could have little effect upon us? You are foolish in fact. If, rather than seeking to The alternatives already exist - co-ops, Iraq, Iran and North Korea. It is quite and corporate elite’s actions are 22/idefy This edition of Total Liberty has the dreaming,” you say. impose a set of unpopular ideas upon the allotments, credit unions, small businesses, likely that the threat to the first will be knazm. One has to ask the question, just usual eclectic mix of articles, comment What are these legislative acts designed to people, they attempt to find issues which barter _ networks, LETS, the Simple Living carried out, less so with the latter two. what level of outrage is needed to and reviews. Larry Gambone gives us his do? They give the State increased powers to really concern them, the elitism of the Movement etc. We can build on these We can count ourselves lucky in this provoke a response from the governed? insights into the need for openness investigate mid detain groups and individuals authorities stands out in bold relief. The experiences. country that we have the “good fortune” \X/hat precise level of self serving greed within Anarchist organisations. Dick who allegedly promote or support political State, which lives by elitist attitudes, secrecy, So too with the State. People can withdraw to live under a regime that has not to date and corruption? What horrific level of Frost gives us his thoughts on Ubiquity, violence. They give the State greater ability to confrontation and violence, is thrown into a from it. Mutualist alternatives can be created incurred the wrath of the world’s sole death and destruction heaped upon Utility and Morality. Peter Good do surveillance and to check financial quandary by people who are open, populist, to the State social services. People can borne remaining super-power. defenceless civilians before we see contributes an article on Hea/I/2 Care. records, in order to root out alleged non--confrontational and non violent. sebeel. Movements already exist to take the In any case such an event is hardly millions of people on the streets of author Ken Macleod conspiratorial violent groups. The only way for the State to crush an schools back from the bureaucracy, to likely given that the governing elite in Western European and American cities gives his opinions in his article Anarchism But what is the result if you are open, non-violent and populist movement decentralise political power, abolish this and the other western nations are and the creation of a movement that and Srienee Fz'ctz'ea. Rory Bowskill reviews TRANSPARENT? What if everything you would be to become totalitarian, to simply repressive regulations and limit the power of more or less in agreement with the USA might end this situation? Or is it only a Land and Liberty pamphlet on do economically and politically is out in the ban ANY opposition to its rule. I think this government over us. It is perfectly legal to do as to where their interests lie. These when people’s awn interests are directly Permaculture. The editor reviews open? What if all your actions are non- is unlikely in the “democracies.” There is a these things. Other than a complete governing elites co-operate on a daily threatened that they will act? It is all the ‘Dissenting Electorate’ by Carl Warner violent md minimize confrontation? virtual consensus among social scientists and dictatorship, the State cannot suppress such basis to maintain their own power and more important that "Anarchists keep up and Wendy McElroy. Peter Neville THE STATE HAS NO POW'ER OVER the members of the ruling elite that some organisations as long as they are non-violent. wealth. The linkages and networks their efforts, by printed journals, by reviews books on statewatching and on YOU! True, in a tirne of hysteria, such as the level of freedom is needed for society to But start waving guns around or preaching between these people are complex, word and by example, to show that there the Taliban. ]oe Peacott reviews Richard aftermath of 911, it is possible for ai non- develop and prosper. Tyranny would kill the violence and the; authorities have an excuse sometimes open knowledge, at other is still an alternative and that there is still Garner’s latest writings on Locke. Also violent person to get falsely accused, but this goose that laid the golden egg. Thus, the to shut you down. times well buried secrets. The works and hope for a better world. there are letters from our readers, will be so far is) the exception rather Corporate State is, out of necessity, forced to If the authorities think their repressive deeds of the UK government, the USA Last December saw the death of recommended magazines and an article than the rule. Furthermore, such false allow some space where debate, political and legislation will allow them to crush dissent, government, the European Union, the veteran Anarchist Vernon Richards, for It Dgbendr an Ybu! by Fred Woodworth accusations will backfire upon the authorities. economic action can take place, even if it they have another thing coming.‘ It might World Trade Organisation, NATO, and a many a long year the power behind the editor of The Match! The State consists of the rule of a small works to marginalise the people who take engender the opposite by forcing dissent to host of other international, national and throne at Freedom Press. Most readers and often conspiratorial elite forcing -the advantage of this fact. take a populist and non-confrontational turn. corporate organisations are certainly not of Total Liberty will know of the work JPS mass of the population to do its bidding. Some of you might be saying right now, In so doing, the dissidents would adopt the carried out to serve the interests of of Freedom Press and Vernon Richards. This is true even in a supposedly democratic “Well, transparency, non-confrontation and ethics and practices that would make social State. It is an organism that lives by, and non—violence, what the hell can we do with and political change a real possibility, rather indeed thrives on, violence and that? And what can we gain from listening to than the pipe dream it seems to be right now. An Anarchist Credo confrontation. For dissident organisations to the people — they support this damn war etc.” Larry Gambone I Anarchism is not terrorism or violence and anarchists do not support, aid or sympathise with terrorists or so-called counter the rule of the State by engaging in hidden, conspiratorial acts and to attempt to I will deal with the last part of this (*) I recognize there are times when secrecy national liberation movements. impose their views by confrontation and statement first. True, the majority does is a necessity — such as organising a union. 0 Anarchism does not mean irresponsibility, parasitism, criminality, nihilism or immoralism, but entails the highest level violence, is to enter the terrain of the State. sometimes take stances that we don’t like. Sometimes confrontation is inevitable - of ethics and personal responsibility. And the State authorities have much more But that isn’t the whole story. The majority, especially when. the will of the population is I Anarchism does not mean hostility toward organisation. Anarchists only desire that all organisations be voluntaly and experience and technology and are much or at least very large minorities of the being thwarted. I also recognize the right of declare that a peaceful social order will exist only when this is so. better at this than a handful of malcontents. population, also take libertarian positions on people to defend themselves from violent 0 Anarchists are resolute anti-statists and do not defend either “limited states” or “welfare states”. These actions, when taken by a dissident a whole range of important subjects. Most attack. But these are exceptional O Anarchists are opposed to all coercion. Poverty, bigotry, sexism and environmental degradation cannot be successfully minority, put that minority at a disadvantage, people favour less government, less taxes, circumstances. Certain ideologies make overcome through the State. Anarchists are therefore opposed to taxation, censorship, so-called affinnative action and placing them in a contradictory situation. want decentralisation and more say in their secrecy, confrontation and violence into the government regulation. Violence and conspiracy are the responses communities and work places. Most people first, not the last, choices of action. 0 Anarchists do not need scapegoats. Poverty and environmental destruction are not ultimately caused by transnationals, of people who are isolated, unpopular (in and Canada, a large minority in the IMF, the USA,'the “developed world”, imperialism, technology or any other devil figure, but are rooted in the power elitists. Conspiratorial parties of left and right the USA) favour dectiminalisation of cannabis and are concerned about the to coerce. Only the abolition of coercion will overcome these problems. are lucky to keep their deposits during "Evolution is leading us up to elections. Relatively powerful terrorist groups environment. If dissidents can’t make 0 Anarchism does not posit any particular economic system but only desires that the economy be non-coercive and Liberty simply because it has led such as the IRA and the ETA are in reality something out of this, it’s because they aren’t composed of voluntary organisations. us in nearly every other direction backed by less than 10% of their potential really trying. and made a failure of it. . ." 0 Anarchists are not utopians or sectanans, but are sympathetic to any effort to decrease statism and coercion and the supporters. Leninist terrorist groups such as The economy is based upon consumption. replacement of authoritarian relations with voluntary ones. the Red Army Faction and the Red Brigades The biggest group of consumers are Benjamin Tucker had virtually no popular support whatever ordinary working people. There simply aren’t Anirnal rights activists who plant bombs or. enough rich to pull it off, not by a long shot. 2 3

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f you ever need a working example of The cold arrogance of technological permission to be sick. And you pay a heavy 9 I the chaos resulting from planning and medicine regularly receives many damning price for this permission. Trust must be regulation then you need look no further exposures of bad practice. A growing surrendered and invested into an authority thm the British Health Service. This great distrust between practitioners and patients figure. post-war vision started off with the highest has been seeded. Increasing numbers of Anarchist objections to business sector Ubiquity, Utility and Morality of intentions. On offer was free medical care patients are beginning to view themselves as medicine works from the as yet untapped for all from the cradle to the grave. It was disgruntled customers of a State monopoly. seam of personal re.g!>or1.rz'biZz'9: as a working truly a tempting slogan. One that promised More and more people are willing to embark alternative. It is an argument demanding decreasing demands on medical services as on the precarious path of lodging complaints. practitioners free themselves from the am concemed here with three aspects borrower-members. The Trustee Savings etc. to be a- new power in the health service the health of the nation improved. In fact, Guarding themselves against this culture of hierarchical quagmire they are bogged down Iof Anarchism, which ought to be better Bank operated in a similar way. at every level, one with no bureaucrat, the reverse happened- The more resources complaint, practitioners have come to rely on in. It asks practitioners to understand known: ubiquity, utility and morality. Co-ops might have been the frontier of a financial or career interest. the Health Service provides, the more tests and procedures that often have more to healing as process. It asks them to listen in to their own wisdom by acknowledging that There is a whole lot of Anarchism in the brave new world. Their hopes, promise and The NHS is just an example of the demands are made upon it. As a result the do with professional defence than looking at an individual -illness. Medicine is now much of modem medicine is often just a world - ubiquity. Without it, no society of successes are well known. Some flourish and bureaucracies, which serve our -needs, as Health Service finds itself locked info a increasingly reliant on technology. The best substitute for what patients really need. my sort could work. Anarchist means for modest new ones are continually being set opposed to the capitalist enterprises, which chaotic cycle in which the only solution sought is centred around the demand for care has become equated with the best Such a model of medicine needs me the free, voluntary association of people up. feed our desires. I Government departments, more, and more, and more of the sme. technologies. And both practitioners and practitioners who are willing to break out of to make something happen which they want, Now include some non-conformist education, social services, health, transport You don’t need me to spell out the patients are trapped in its grip. their compartments and share their skills churches, the trades unions, public libraries, are others. ‘What they all need is not more without exploiting anyone or anything. It is evidence. Just go and sit in the waiting This same technology has been warmly with others. Many nurses are just as capable basic in human nature. We associate and co- evening classes, the Labour Party the money but rather a growing democratisation rooms of anyone of our hospitals. embraced by the growing business sector of prescnbing appropriate medicines _ and operate because that’s how we are. A whole SWP and so amazingly on and you have a of their procedures and structures, which Everywhere you will see evidence of influence within health provision. After all, dealing with everyday cuts and bruises. lot of evil organisations, including big partial over-view of organisations in the UK would be a step towards Anarchism. bureaucracy and hierarchy running wild. You both technology and management share the Much of the present necessity for paperwork business and the State, depend on this which demonstrate aspects of Anarchism. This is a reformist programnie with a will see more uniforms here than in the same appetite for numbers and complicated could be avoided if the system could be instinct. Twisted, perverted and generally Essentially, and in their beginnings, all revolutionary objective. The drive to open up average military transit camp. Be aware of graphs. Between them they have managed to persuaded to invest trust in its patients. buggered about, it yet makes the world go involved people joining together to get or systems to public scrutiny, participation and how the whole place is riddled with class and create an l1'lSTli1lllO1'l that is hostile to non- Practitioners need only record their observations on tapes which patients would round. provide themselves with some thing or inquiry as of right would improve what we status. A powerful pecking order presides. technological intervention. Scientific med- icine is a hard-edged philosophy and it keep for future reference. Most queries What interests me here, however, is the service they needed, all the people have and be a step towards what we want. I Registered nurses be-medaled with badges and name-tags; administrators in dark suits; hinders the progress of the more human about health matters can be answered more nearly anarchic structures we have or contributing and benefiting roughly equally. accept for the time being much that is far young doctors flaunting stethoscopes round approaches to health care. It’s an oddity isn’t competently by practitioners who need not used to set up. Sport is a nice example. How and why they went astray requires from Anarchist but I am tired of Anarchism their necks. And the deeper picture is even it that the more advmces science makes in necessarily be based in Dettol-smelling Though corrupted by business and money- another article. being equated with both chaos and utopian worse. Practitioners have become victims of medical technology the more the people turn clinics. daydreams. For me, it is the best theory of grabbing, any game is in essence a few or a The immediate utility of Anarchism is less a system that has desensitised many well- to alternative therapies? The people’s strange Responsibility of course, works both ways. crowd of people getting together to do obvious since we tend to think or dream of social life; it already exists and its precepts meaning people. A litigant-sensitive earthy wisdom often turns out to be right. Anarchists would ask of the sick that they in something they want to do. Interest groups, the end game. But those things about need to be applied piecemeal to any social administration insists that everything be I am not advocating a health service free turn become better patients. The healing hobby clubs, dancing, singing and social life existing structures which rightly disgust us, structure which seeks the common good, written out and fed into computerised tick- from technology. I wouldn’t want to live in a process is not helped if a person sees generally aren’t much different: they are such as inequality, secrecy, fixed hierarchy are however inadequately. boxes. You will learn how qualified world without anaesthetics. Rather, I themselves as passive recipients of expertise. things we do voluntmily and which we could, ‘frequently just the points at which anarchic The moral issue is similarly basic: electricians are the only ones allowed to propose a system of health care which would Every body comes equipped with its own and often still, organise by and for ourselves. reform is needed now. Anarchism is essential to human life. We are change a light bulb and then only when in view healing as a loving interchange rather inner healer and it’s a far more complex arrangement than any machine. You need to Usually we make up and agree on rules. We human in so far as we are Anarchist. Our life possession of the correct docket. Watch than a bureaucratic transaction. One in which human interaction precedes any other. be in control of your own body and take establish hierarchies and recognise specific In my on-going campaign against the NHS should be in balance between individual how cleaners clean only what their time and motion study permits. Observe the teams of This kind of care is far removed from the responsibility for it. The only real choices jobs, which have to be done so the game or I rail against its secrecy in decision-making in freedom and the requirements of the free superannuated porters who are called upon bleating mantra for more and more modern medicine offers is to accept or to dance can happen. We even agree on general and over the allocation of resources communities to which we ideally belong. whenever an office desk“ or a cabinet needs resources. Listen in to the people’s wisdom refuse the treatment offered. Various forms "offences and punishments - such as in particular — which determine staffing Anarchist morality is whatever helps to moving. again. Vvhat patients want, if you ask them, of self-medication come in the form of ‘sendings off’ in football. But no one is levels, availability of beds, waiting lists for maintain the community, which is the stage \7Uhat this chaos has produced are bands of is a friendship service with an integral level alcohol or drugs. You know there are forced to suffer. We can always walk away operations, etc- I attack quite rudely the and context of our liberty. It is, therefore, compartmentalised health service employees of trust. They actually express a preference dangers you buy into a diet of sugars and or resign. elitism of medical and management altruistic, which is why it is the highest who have learned to survive by guarding for hospitals that are happy and creative preservative foods. Accordingly there is little Sick clubs were voluntary, mutual aid hierarchies, the lack of contact between morality: there will be times when the themselves against blame. In their world, places to walk into. All these simple- need for the State to spend millions warning organisations. A group of people who bosses and workers, the absence of a individual will sacrifice his or her interests or you are not allowed to make mistakes. sounding provisions are essential ingredients people to stay away from the six-packs and established one could, by paying an equal complaints procedure or effective feedback life even for the community. But what results Whole careers are seriously jeopardised if to healing. The people’s wisdom calls upon cigarettes. sum each week, in effect hire a doctor or the from patients and so on. from this altruism are the conditions in risks are taken and a practitioner steps us to radically rethink the way we practice Modern medicine, with its gloss of audits and leagues tables, is in great peril. It is deaf services of a hospital when one of them was I do so with anarchic prejudice because I which the ‘free, unique individual can grow outside the boundaries of their recognised medicine. A starting point for Anarchists is the to whether results can be obtained from ill. It is a long leap to the NHS, but that is am sure that openness at all these points and flourish. comparunents. In report and in committee the name of the game is CYA - Cover Your understanding that healing is a process and other approaches to health care. It single- effectively a sick club writ gigantic: in theory, would be the best first step - one that could This is a plea to Anarchists to broadcast Arse. And make sure you cover it well. The an enquiry. For a resolution of some mindedly seeks solutions from the powers we all contribute according to our means in be taken now - towards efficiency and the the virtues of our beliefs and to seek to apply professions have taken the precaution of condition to occur the efforts of both the that are the cause of its problems in the first economic use of people, money and aspects of Anarchism wherever we can get a order to get treatment free when we need it. protecting themselves well from scrutiny and patient and the practitioner are required. At place. The interests of bureaucracy and Building societies were set up so that resources. Bad planning, waste, hearing. We live in a half way tolerable criticism. They have bolstered themselves present. our waiting rooms overflow with technology do not lie the direction of members could save for the time when they incompetence, over-manning, cock-ups and society, which is worth improving. It is fast with powerful images of people doing their patients who have surrendered the power of increasing personal autonomy. Awkward would need to borrow the price of a house. cover-ups are difficult to get away with when running out of ideas; what hasn’t been tried best under difficult conditions. And by their own inner healer. That's why patients delays and administrative complications The community of members provided a they happen in the public gaze. I want is the Anarchist progrmnme. It’s time to asserting that their work can only be sit around in waiting areas looking so would result if medicine begm to risk small return for saver-members and organisations of patients and self-help groups begin. objectively judged by their peers they have downcast. To be sick in any bureaucratic investing trust in its patients. And what a sufficient funds to advance as mortgages to covering e.g. arthritis, heart disease, asthma Dick Frost ensured their motives are extremely difficult system means you must be in possession of a chaotic mess that would be. to question. stamp of official approval. You need Peter Good 4 5 i iv

spawned numerous conspiracy theories. epoch, the reader has long since got the and Anarchism I couldn't have written Tire Robert Shea’s and Robert Anton Wflson’s point As Chomsky says, if you want to know Sky Road This diversity of inspiration is as Illurninatus! trilogy works its way through a the IIHIHCS of the world’s real owners, look at typical of SF as it will, I hope, become of the Anarchism and Science Fiction succession of them, each of which explodes the brand-names all around you. new and broad libertarian movement we’d all the previous one by revealing, behind the My own books have been inspired by all of like to see, and indeed of the society it secret masters, other masters more secret the above, as well as by Anarchist and creates. A future without coercion will be the still. Behind the Bilderbergers, Trilateralists libertarian literature from ‘left’ and ‘might’. work of many hands, and-many minds, and t was science fiction that got me systems, alternative societies and the them. ‘Take me to your leaderless’ doesn’t and other usual suspects we _find the Without Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia begins now. interested in Anarchism in the ‘first interplay of new ideas’. But as Richard quite cut it when you want to re-establish Freemasons, behind them the Illuminati, I couldn't have written Tbe Star Fraction; place. Paul Anderson’s short story ‘The Alexander, also correctly, points out (TL, top-down authority. behind them the Templars, the Cathars, the without the SPGB’s ‘Socialism as a Practical Ken Macleod Last of the Deliverers’ tums on a Autumn 2001) Neville’s article misses much In this respect Hogan follows Eric Frank Gnostics by the time the ultimate Alternative and Wfllialn Mor1is’s News From confrontation between the last communist recent SF of potential interest to Anarchists. Russell’s superficially light-hearted, but manipulator of events is exposed as a Nowhere I couldn’t have written Too Cassini and the last enthusiast for capitalism - two So does this one - there’s a lot of it out there. fundamentally serious, anti-authoiitarian tales Lovecraftian monster in the pre-Cambrian Dilation; without Larry Gambone’s Proudhon very old men, who end up dead in the fiver Academic discussions of Anarchism and in The Great Exjolosion, in which scores of with their hands locked around each other’s SF tend to begin and end with Ursula Le scattered colonies are being corralled back throats: a microcosm of a world in which the Guin’s The Dispossessed, a book which has into Earth’s' bureaucratic empire, with mixed US and the SU flfld their contending probably put more people off Anarchism success. In the collection’s culminating story, ideologies have long since collapsed. (One than any other. It presents a dour vision of ‘And Then There Were None’, one particular down, one to go.) Cheap, small fusion- Anorolritt Comwamkm: something like a shipload of bureaucrats and their increasingly power plants have made possible a radical particularly fanatical kibbutz or Spanish Civil mutinous crew confront a highly decentralisation of population and power War collective. Computers are hand-waved individualistic anarchy whose ‘secret weapon’ Book Reviews into small and in mmy ways self-sufficient into economic planning, children are of Gandhim disobedience is both operating communities, who can nevertheless co- discouraged from ‘egoising’ - getting principle co-operation is voluntary, its operate on a continental scale to build possessive about their toys, or their ideas. withdrawal is an effective means of PERMACULTURE A Beginner-’s Guide subject as wide as permaculture in 60 A5 Anything which makes for stronger, healthier spaceships. As a late-sixties space age The conflicts this induces in Shevek, a enforcement) and revolutionary strategy. Graham Burnett pages. Thus some things have been left out and more vibrant communities is extremely schoolboy I found this vision exciting, and brilliant physicist with a few too many ideas In the advanced countries an everyday Published by Land and Liberty or given less attention thm people with a radical as it weakens the centralised State and when I talked about it to a friend he said, of his own, are well presented. In the experience of an anarchy which works by co- 35 Rayleigh Avenue, Westchff on Sea, Essex. particular interest in those parts of peoples’ dependence on it as well as ‘That sounds like Anarchism.’ absence of public debate and in the relentless operation and non-cooperation is the SSO 7DS permaculture would like. Apart from three providing the networks of trust and mutual So off I went and read all I could find presence of morality, Shevek has no forum in Internet. ’s Snow ‘Cassi: Price £4.95 including tree tax pages of tables and another three of contacts support to allow the State to be challenged about Anarchism, starting with Giovanni which to express his dissent, no way to find reflects vividly the freewheeling spirit. of the etc. every page is illustrated in some way, more effectively as was the case with Baldelli’s Social Anarobism, April Carter’s The like-minded individuals with whom he might Internet’s pioneering years, when mutually AT 60 A5 pages this is a bargain, less than breaking up the text, making it more community based resistance to the poll tax. Political Tlveoiy of Aaorobism, and the Coho- find common grotmd; instead, his conflicts hostile ‘online communities’ of researchers, 10p a page and some of that goes directly readable, or explaining an aspect via Bendits’ Obsolete Communism. They didn’t become conflicts with other individuals. He libertarians, Anarchists, labour and human- towards the kind of activities it advocates. diagrams. In some sense this is a handbook of covert make me an Anarchist, but they changed my is as isolated as any dissident in a totalitarian rights activists, Holocaust revisionists and The last three pages are lists of further Unlike some books on the subject this one subversion of both the State and Corporate life. By way of retaliation, I’d like to get State. pomographers found -common cause as reading and contacts which is useful as this doesn’t assume you’ve got a couple of Capitalism. It suggests ways of creating a set more Anarchists interested in science fiction, A much more cheerful vision of a stateless, ‘netizens’ in end runs around all attempts at is, as the title says ‘a beginners guide’ so it is hundred acres of tropical _forest at your of parallel structures that break the hold of and change theirs. classless, and moneyless society is presented censorship or regulation. A cynical saying in aimed at getting people into the ideas rather disposal where you cm just walk around the twin evils without getting shot. The What I’d like to see is not just more SF in Iain Bm1ks’s Calture novels, set in a the geek culture of programming is ‘If you than those who have been on lots of naked waiting for the coconuts to fall and methods it advocates may not seem as informed by Anarchism, but an Anarchist Galactic society of abundance premised on document a bug, it’s a feature’ and permaculture courses, pick fruit all year round, or thousands of exciting as storming the corridors of power movement and climate of opinion much benevolent artificial intelligences - machines Stephenson gleefully takes this attitude to Some in the Anarchist movement have said pounds to spend on a smallholding in Wales. but they are much harder for the State to more informed by SF than it currently is. like gods, in which humans live like mice in some obvious objections to anarchy: unstable this book is not radical enough but whether In fact it recognises that most people in the resist. It is extremely hard to legislate against Cloning, genetic engineering, life-extension, gliders, or bats in belfries. Life in a Culture individuals with personal nuclear weapons the move to a free society is evolutionary’ or post-industrial (and also in the people having and helping friends or doing nanotechnology, space exploration and -Orbital is like a Caribbean cruise, except that are dealt with by extreme politeness. Widi revolutionary, without food nobody lasts industxialising) countries live in urban something to help themselves and even industrialisation, artificial intelligence and so the ship contains its own ocean. Those Greater Hong Kong as a chain of motorway II11JCl"l II10I€ thflil two months. So the environments and says that it is possible to harder to police such legislation. With on are moving fiom science fiction through discontented with this lazy life-style are free service" areas, the Mafia as pizza delivery advocates of fighting in the streets to get rid use permaculture philosophy and techniques networks to provide food, health, education, the science journals to the headlines. If to depart or - if they’re smart - join in the franchise, ‘You have a friend in the F, of government should read this and think in these places as well. Whether ifs a few repair houses and goods or manufacture Anarchists refuse to think about such things, Machiavellian machinations of Contact and the whites-only enclaves of New South how long they will last if the State cuts off herbs in a window box of a flat, using old things we need, both the State and others who aren’t so reluctant will shape Section, which artfully nudges backward Africa brandishing their bazookas, the the food supply to any area they gain control tins and jars for keeping things in rather than Capitalism are undermined. Thus, hidden, their use, and with it the future. planets in the right - or left - direction. Even anarchy of cyberspace .has been mapped onto of! Those who take 3 more evolutionary throwing them away or sharing skills within within these seemingly innocent pages is a Too much Anarchist rhetoric has a in their interventions the Culture keeps its the dismembered body of the State. approach should get a copy to help your community. Hopefully this will both possible way to reach a point where a call for nineteenth-century feel - not surprisingly, scientific cool, selecting certain planets to be ’s A Fire Upon Ibo Dory: uses themselves and others escape the culture of encourage those who have felt that they total non compliance with the State and non because that’s when a lot of it was written. It left untouchedf properly conducted social the Internet not only as the model for his dependency on the State (benefit payments) would like to get into a more sustainable way participation in the activities of it or doesn’t have to be like this. One of the most experiments need control samples. Earth, in galactic communications web, aptly called and corporations (supermarkets) for their of living but haven’t got the resources to Corporate Capitalist consumerism will be inspiring books I read as a teenager, Breathing case we hadn’t guessed, is one of them. ‘The Net of a Million Lies’, but also for the ability to stay alive and change things. start where they are and reduce the risk of responded to with enthusiasm by millions In Tlao "Future (Zenith Books, Hodder & An equally Communist Anarolajw has been galactic society of societies, some of which The advantage of this introduction is that it permaculture becoming a fundamentalist, and cut the supply of funds to the State Stoughton, London, 1965) was written by an imagined by the hard-headed American free- are anarchies and all of which exist in one. covers many aspects of pewaculture and the elitist, middle class, new-age, trendy fad. agencies of repression. Anarchist, Tony Gibson. Cannily, it didn’t marketeer and engineer james P. Hogan in For Vinge, an Anarcho-Capitalist with issues surrounding it, not just growing things This aspect of the book reveals that many I don’t know about you but to me that talk about Anarchism. Its front cover posed his Voyage From Yesteryear. His utopia runs genuinely Anarchist views, anarchy is not so but social, economic and psychological as more people are practicing permaculture seems a radical, even revolutionary situation the question: ‘Outer space, new nations, on a more immediately feasible technology much a programme as a description of the well. Generally each subject is given one or than would be thought; the man down the and one which, unlike any kind of armed automation, population How can we use a than the indistinguishable-from-magic existing state of affairs. We never emerge two pages, making for lots of short. sections, road who helps people fix their cars is doing uprising, would not need the first stage to be million years’ experience in- the revolutions machinery of the Culture. It has robots to from the state of nature, and never can. that. can be dipped into for ideas or permaculture even if he doesn’t know it. the killing of all those such as drug users who just ahead?’ If any Anarchist has given an do the work, but they aren’t conscious There are in his world lots of statists, but no i11f01‘1I13fi0I1 during those odd few minutes After all, permaculture is in many ways a would be a security risk because they might answer half as lively and on the ball since, I’d robots so we’re not relying on their States, in the sense of authorities whose we find filling much of our time, such as modern name for ways people have done be willing to turn informer for their next fix. love to hear about it. The same kind of benevolence, just their tolerances. One has claim to legitimacy can be upheld or attacked. while waiting for the kettle to boil, rather things for centuries in order to perpetuate For anyone wishing to_ be free of the State question is still being asked, and variously the distinct feeling that Hogan has their It’s turtles, all the way down - or pretenders, than chapters of twenty pages or more that their society. I see this part of permaculture, or Corporate Capitalism it is a useful starting answered, in SF. blueprints, if not (yet) their programmes, in a all the way up. you need an uninterrupted hour to in order and this introduction to it, as it’s most radical point, as it gives ideas for eating better and Science fiction is relevant to Anarchist big drawer in his desk. What makes the story, The suspicion that the State is no more to be . able to take in what is being said. aspect because it is where people are at having your head clearer which are needed as concerns because, as Peter Neville correctly however, is the fun I-Iogan’s heroes have public-spirited than the average corporation Although, as the author recognises, it is which is the best starting point for we move from a ‘cradle to grave’ State to says (IL, Spring 2001) it ‘allows the running iings around the State-Capitalist or criminal gang has seeped into US culture impossible to even mention every aspect of a encouraging them to go a bit further. whatever will replace it. examination of alternative worlds, alternative Earthpersons who attempt to repossess since the first Kennedy assassination, and 6 7 ‘E.

r. society of such people, in the absence of a In the first of the essays in his second those activities it purportedly exists to On the downside of this booklet is the fact. perhaps this is part of its strength. It is a State, would inevitably degenerate into the pamphlet, T/Je Case Against the State, Garner protect its subjects against. Garner argues that, as it is written by veggies '/ vegans. It Conspiracy Theories balanced picture of how it is, or was, before sort of chaotic and brutal “anarchy” of which makes the case that “the State is your that orderly, rational, and equitable social and neglects the fact that some land is best suited Conspiracy Theories by Robin Ramsey, the present conflict commenced. Hobbes writes. On the contrary, Gamer enemy,” and recounts for the reader the economic systems can arise spontaneously to pasture via which animal products can Published by pocket essentials, 18 I may be wrong here but I often feel up-to- argues that what others have called various ways in which people are murdered, through human interaction undirected by the provide a useful input to not only diet but Coleswood Road, Harpenden, Herts the-minute ‘topical’ books tend to be a little enlightened self-interest would lead free robbed, and controlled by government. He State or other authorities. His use, as in other necessities for survival in northern AL5 IEQ, 2000 ISBN 1-903047-30-7 £3.99 histrionic and lose a sense of objectivity, of people, generally, to cooperate and live further argues that despite the claims of Hebees, of historical examples to prove his temperate regions without imports from perspective, emphasising certain things peacefully together. To back up his case, he supporters of the State, people in general do points is one of the strengths of this essay, as countries further south which have a Robin Ramsey is the editor and publisher related to current events and de—emphasising cites a number of examples of real world not really “consent” to this institution. well. detrimental effect on the populations of the of LOBSTER, a twice yearly journal other things because they have no immediate Whfle none of this is new ground in In both of these pamphlets, Garner countries that they are grown in, and involve specialising in in—depth articles on topicality, although in real terms they are an cooperation independent of government to demonstrate that his belief in the ability and Anarchist theory, I did appreciate seeing defends a position with which I am largely in transportation.‘ over thousands of miles, statewatching and the security services (as important part of the background. desire of people to cooperate is not based again the argument, in the tradition of agreement, but I_was disappointed that most making them just one more example of distinct from STATEWATCHING, the Vi/hat the book does for me is give a individualist; Lysander Spooner, that even by of the examples he used to demonstrate how global capitalist consumerism. Maybe that’s quarterly, reviewed by me in TL Vol 2 No.1 background of who is who in the conflict: simply on theoretical conjecture, but is voting one does not necessarily consent to a free market would work used’ a model in personal bias as an omnivore? But if a rabbit Summer 1999). Labster costs £6.00 per Pashtuns (Pathans), Uzbecks, Tajiks, Hazara; driven by the actual experience of people being ruled by an elected govemment. Since which Capitalist economic relations and annum from 214 Westboume Avenue, Hull Sunni md Shi’a; the coming of The Taliban living and working together on their own. Can provide three uses (meat, fur and the alleged consent of the govemed is a key commerce hold sway. Other Anarchist fertiliser) it is a more permaculturalist view HU5 3B], single copies £3.00 plus postage and their immediate and longer term effects. Unlike some other Anarchists, however, part of the argument in defense of the State, individualists, including Benjamin Tucker, than just fertiliser. from Freedom Bookshop. Website ‘Who is who in The Northem Alliance — who Garner is not naive enough to believe that the point that such consent is actually not whom Garner cites in his pamphlet, have Rory Bowskill wwwlobster-magazine.co.uk. do not appear to be as bad as they are often given by most people, even voters, is worth argued that not only could -the market, This little booklet is complirnentary to the painted by Pakistan, itself ruled by an theft and violence would automatically reiterating from time to time. This essay is unhindered by government, provide all the joumal. Although only ninety-five pages in undemocratic ; in a disappear in a Stateless world simply because followed by a very brief excerpt from an on- products and non-coercive services anyone length, its’ even chapters and detailed notes country where the feud is often central to most people would prefer cooperation to Dissenting Electorate line posting in which Gamer covers again would want, but it would also drive down cover the wide ranging topic from a critical life; and the affects of Central Asian oil conflict if given real choice. But his remedy some of the same issues- regarding defense prices to the level of the true cost of examination of ‘conspiracy theories and producers and their would-be western for the ongoing problem of coercive or services he already addressed in Halvbes. providing these products and services, thus conspiracies’ to real conspiracies and State partners. Everything is often very complex unjust actions, which will occur in any The third and final section of this eliminating profit and, with it, capitalism. Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to produced disinformation._ and nothing is quite as it seems especially in society, is not government, which he believes pamphlet, is a refutation of David Kelley’s His failure to argue, as he did so well in his Vote and the of their Opposition. For instance why do Americans believe in relation to who your friends and allies are at" is just another parasite of the kind Hobbes “The Necessity of Government”. Kelley is earlier W‘/Jet is Mutua!:'sm?, that it is possible Edited by Carl Wamer and Wendy McElroy conspiracies? Because American history since any one time. feared would arise in the absence of a State. an objectivist scholar, popular among to have a market-has-ed and Stateless Published 2001 by McFarland ISBN 0-7864- World War Two has been dominated by Peter Neville Garner instead advocates a free market in the economic system based on private property, 0874-x 135 pages Paperback them. Not only the Red Menace and UFOs provision of defense services by private minarchist “libertarians” in the , (Editofs note: The above review has been but free of capitalist economic arrangements, but cover-ups by the CIA and FBI, much of individuals and groups. He argues his case who argues that an institution outside the shortened.) will, I fear, make his arguments far less which have engendered SF TV series such as for the efficacy and fairness of this market, the State, is needed to formulate and persuasive than they otherwise might have Dissenting Electorate is a compilation of The X Files, Dark Skies, Rosswell High and arrangement -at length, relying heavily on the enforce the few necessary rules and been t.o those of a more collectivist bent. i essays and selections from a range of authors the like. If Hobbes Is Right writings of David Friedman and Murray regulations that would defend individuals Joe Peacott old and new. The uniting theme of the book Remember the old expression ‘]ust because Rothbard, and describes instances where against coercion and ensure the freedom .of is their refusal to consent to political private agreements have brought about the participants in the marketplace. He (Ihese pamphlets are at present being I’m paranoid does not mean they aren’t after Anarchist and individualist Richard Garner government and the process of voting. They orderly and fair systems for the protection of believes that anarchy would ‘.‘Be a disaster in published by Half-Assed—Photocopy-Job me’? Anarchists may be sceptical of State has recently written two new pamphlets. Q’ include such stalwarts as Victorian political person and property and the peaceful practice. . .because it is fantastic and Unlimited, and are available from the author propaganda and disinformation but we know Hobbes Is Rig/Jr, Tben He Is Wrong argues the philosopher Herbert. Spencer and his resolution of conflicts. incoherent in theory.” at 31 Hatfield Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 it exists. That is why we are Anarchists, case for people’s ability to create am ordered American near contemporary Lysander ‘While I found his _use of game theory to Garner easily debunks the arguments of 9AF, UK. Prices are £2 for IfHel=bes Is Rzglglf, working out a more ethical alternative. society without a State and authority, while Spooner. More recent are contributions from make some of his arguments rather Kelley in favour of the State, pointing out the Tben He Is Wrong and £1.50 for T/ye Case This book does not necessarily say Tine Case Against I/ye State contains three brief Carl Wamer editor and publisher of the cumbersome and distracting, Garner inherent contradictions in his and other Against tbe State.) mything new but it does give plenty of essays which challenge any belief that the American joumal The Volurztaryist and succeeds in making the case that. even if minarchists’ defense of State power. As he detailed ammunition for those of us who State is either necessary or benign. American feminist and Anarchist Wendy Hobbes was right about human nature, he does elsewhere in these pamphlets, he ably ( Editor’s note: Remember you can help fight find ourselves in the position, in public Garner believes that each individual has a McElroy. was wrong about the necessity for a coercive puts the case that States necessarily violate global capitalism by ordering the above debate, wherein we can say “But what about right t.o individual self-ownership or The broad thrust of the book is written government to create order in society. individuals’ freedom, engaging in precisely books from your local bookstore!) so and so?” and then give detailed argument sovereignty and that only voluntary from a North American and libertarian to enlighten the protagonist. interactions between people can be viewpoint. That said, there is much in I am glad to hear the comment made considered just. Since States necessarily Common with more mainstream Anarchist recently by a senior police officer saying violate individual sovereignty with their taxes, views on the State, government and voting. iii some cases are never closed. Maybe this laws, regulations, police powers, etc., they are not \IER‘! jj Ant’. rrofLE FwoAn£wrA1ti Lysander Spooner’s comments on this topic '§-0 ‘t means we will find out, at long last, who unjust, and therefore unacceptable, So ml/ch gmwuat 0R 5w/tL'{ are blistering ...‘As all voting is secret (by killed Hilda Murrell? A conspiracy of silence institutions. Hobbes, however, argued that \ cfl"li 13,0 igyfo ‘aq- whfl CR“ " “'“ ' '1 secret ballot), and as all secret governments or just pressure put on us by the State to without a State, or “common power” to cf‘) are necessarily only secret bands of robbers, it lg“ \{_1\O Herc prevent civil police detectives from moving protect people from each other, a war of all ram +9?’‘U cf”""*'HIH1 V55* UQlive tyrants, and murderers, the general fact that in certain directions? Bedtime reading against all would occur, where might would jzafintl our government is practically carried on by Q comrades? make right and no mutually agreed-upon will L°ol’~' AF-Rr means of such voting, only proves there is 9*-\ property rights could exist. In this world, among us a secret band of robbers, tyrants TALIBAN people would be routinely robbed and and murderers, whose purpose is to rob, TALIBAN: Islam, Oil and the New Great 1//‘i i6 abused by those who were stronger. enslave, and so far as ' necessary to Game in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid. Consequently, civilisation could not exist, accomplish their purposes, murder the rest Pub. I.B. Tauris Publishers. 2000 ISBN 1- since there would be no incentive to develop of the people...’ 86064—417-1 £12.95 Tyi/fiaa new techniques or knowledge when people 1.?»- holhl M“ K‘ F Above all the various articles assail the could not have any realistic hope of Ahmed Rashid is an internationalist Ca“ ‘ I K concepts of ‘consent’ and ‘political X u 11'."'n\\ protecting themselves and their belongings obligation’ as defended by political Pakistani journalist with a considerable from the predations of others who were less philosophers since the days of Locke and knowledge of Central Asia and Afghanistan. industrious, but more powerful. Hobbes. Anarchists believe there is no reality He is Pakistan, Central Asia and Afghanistan As implied by the title of his first pamphlet, correspondent for the ‘Daily Telegraph’ and -1 what IO these concepts, either consent or _pelz'tz'mZ Garner agrees with Hobbes’ underlying obfzgation. This book gives us good ‘Far Eastern Economic Review’. The book 6/ 149:: ‘_j hZtfl’QflS r».ext‘?_, assumption that people are self—interested Petdr,_PA°l. ammunition for our discussions. itself is not fully up-to-date in that it covers and rational, but does not believe that a Jonathan Simcock the period before September 11*‘, 2001 but 9 8

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Oh yes, and he always wrote a other smaller circulation journals, but we still coercion, also with interesting items of news Peter Good £37.00, Brian Morris £20.00, transaction that is taking place and no one is Finally it provides a more pleasant damned good story, which is more than I can have only a small subscriber base and small and comment in each issue. alternative design and print because of inks say for many modern writers. ‘ sales at the approx. 12 radical bookshops Freedom 8: The Raven: Published as Jean Robinson £40.00, Simon Dunnington being bullied int.o working or eating there. If £12.00, Peter Neville £10.00, and thanks a local restaurant folds when one of these and metal / woodblock typefaces, plus solid Still keep up the debate. I know thinking is across the country which stock TL. The regular as clockwork, the apogee of especially to Paul Lloyd for his help with places opens, people just weren’t spending impression of letterpress. hard but try it, it works wonders in the end. unfortunate fact is that independent Anarchist efficiency. Fortnightly from advertising costs. their money there anymore. I’m not a Salut The reason why the works of the brothers radical bookshops are few and far between. Freedom Press, in Angel Alley, 84b Each edition of TL costs £190.00 to print champion of capitalism, as you know, but I Dennis Gould Grimm, the tales of Hans Christian Many have closed in recent years, for Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. Stroud Anderson and The Arabian Nights have example, Independent Books in Sheffield, 50p per issue, or take out a 24 issue and approx. £60.00 in postage to subscribers don't see this type of globalisation as and bookshops. coercive. It's unfortunate, but it’s what Dear Editor lasted so long is they were damn good Front Line in Manchester, Mushroom in subscription for £14.00. Freedom Press are consumers are choosing. Thank you for the latest Total Liberty. I stories. I hope the new Anarchistic writers Nottingham, and Compendium Books in also publishers _ of the quarterly theoretical found the discussion on science fiction a mentioned by Alexander were also damn London, to name but four I am aware of. journal The Raven; £3.00 per issue, 4 issue I agree that providing attractive alternatives welcome break from ‘hard-core’ good reads. If not, why would I bother to Total Liberty has a print run of 500, of subscription £12.00. All cheques payable to read them? If it is not fun I am not is the way to reverse this trend, but don’t politicalising. Positionalism is anathema to which 250 go out to shops and 50 plus t.o Freedom Press. Belper Green Fair know what to do about reversing the trend most Anarchists. I read some of Frank interested. I gave up duty when I left the subscribers, leaving 200 copies of each issue Imagine: A sceptical journal of philosophy towards an ever more powerfiil and intrusive I-Ierbert’s Trilogy and was taken by his style army. Duty has no place in Anarchism or languishing unread in the office. I would like and politics. Worldng in the same tradition as Anarchist writing. A Gathering of State. As you point out, people are not really of seeing the Merchant Houses as a warring to be able to increase the print run but see The Match! A good read. $3.50 or Peter Neville Radicals and Greens in the heart choosing more oppressive government since faction. I think Frank did a lot of good work little point in doing so until subscriptions and subscription $5.00 from P.O. Box 8145, Middlesex - of Derbyshire. most of the population abstains from the on the anti-militarist stance. I enclose some sales increase. Total Liberty is not run for Reno, NV 39507 USA (Editor?s note. The above letter has been Stalls, Music, Food, Campaigns and Fun electoral process, realising that which party is stamps. profit. Proceeds from sales go to fund the in control does not significantly change Mike V. shortened) next edition and the postage costs incurred in Any Time Now: Anarchist decentralist Government policy. As the US continues its Manchester distributing the journal to the current magazine edited by Dick Martin with regular Saturday 20”‘ April slide into fascism, with its constant state of Dear Total Liberty subscribers and shops. contributions from Larry Garnbone. Features The publication goes from strength to 10.00am - 6.00pm war, its ever increasing police powers, ever As an initiative to try to widen the regular news from The Voluntary Co- decreasing tolerance of dissent, ever less Dear Total Liberty strength. Find enclosed £10.00 for the next readership of Total Liberty I am interested in operation Movement (formerly The Affinity The Fleet Arts Centre accountable government, and ever widening My subs are enclosed. Please keep the four issues. All the best. hearing from any journal or publisher on the Group of Evolutionary Anarchists) and The Fleet, Belper John Atherton gap between the privileged few and the change. I know it’s not much but it helps. Anarchist and libertarian side of publishing articles on decentralisrn, Anarchism. 6 pages. Crawley Derbyshire economically insecure majority, the future I also thought you might like to know who is willing to carry A5, sized ‘flyers’ Subscription by donation to ATN, Affinity Vi/est Sussex does not look good for Anarchism here, about these two magazines which I read advertising Total Liberty in their journal. In Place, Argenta, B.C., Canada (VOG 1B0) 10 ll

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