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How Are We to Establish a Truly Free and Egalitarian Society? Number 35 July 2003 How are we to establish a truly free and egalitarian society? These days these words “freedom and equality” are part of can see that the “freedom and equality” of which we have the vocabulary of each and every one of us. But make a few just been speaking are alien to the people! Indeed, can one inquiries and ask: What is freedom? and you will be told speak here of “freedom” and “equality”? I refuse to credit “Freedom means freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, that there can be any freedom of that sort! Any equality freedom of association and assembly, the freedom of of that stripe! But what then are real freedom and real secrecy of correspondence”. equality? Ask: What is equality? and you will be told: “All Here comes my answer: Anarchy. That is the real citizens are equal before the law, with no difference freedom. And communism is the real equality. Only a between the high•born and the yokel.” Now, such narrow social revolution can allow us to build a really free and definitions have nothing to do with true freedom, true really egalitarian society. equality. Don’t believe me? Then have a read of the But what is Anarchy? following. Anarchy is the placing of the State and its accessory The blight upon the people’s freedom is the State. Ever institutions upon the Index and collective ownership of the since the State came into existence, we have stopped being means of production and goods produced. Every individual free. No matter what we do or say, the State sticks its nose contributing in accordance with his ability and receiving in in. All we ask is to live in love with our brethren from accordance with his needs. And work shared out according other nations, but the State would have us patriots at any to the ability of the individual: whoever has the ability to be price, enrols us in its armies and forces us to murder our a doctor does the doctoring, and whoever has the ability to neighbours. And here in China the situation is even worse: mine does the mining. More time devoted to straightfor• here we have Chinese murdering other Chinese. For a ward tasks and less time squandered on complicated or number of years now, in Hunan and Shaanxi and tiresome ones. An agency to find you food when you are Szechuan, “the tide of blood has been running high and the hungry, clothing to wear and a roof under which to shelter. corpses are piling up”. Everybody in receipt of the same education, with no What horror! So much for the benefits that the State has distinction drawn between the clever and the slow•witted. brought us. Arrogating to themselves the resources that are Time and again, one French anarchist has reiterated: the common wealth of our planet, the capitalists grind us “Every individual need work only two hours a day if all the into a poverty that denies us the right to live. Not that the needs of society are to be met”. And Kropotkin too has State punishes them for it: worse still, it protects them stated: “If everyone works four hours a day, that will be through a battery of laws. enough – indeed, more than enough – to meet society’s The people has nothing to eat and has no option but to needs.” steal its food: it goes naked and has no option but to steal I imagine that such a proposition, cutting working clothes: it has no option but to steal all that it needs. The hours to the bone, could not help but attract universal people is driven to all this by the capitalists. And there goes support. Without the State and its laws, we would have real the State, in its grandeur, dismissing us as brigands and freedom: without the capitalist class, we would have real decreeing that we are fit for nothing but the execution equality. picket. We are gunned down merely for recouping – in Friends of the world of labour, can you see just how free contravention of the law, to be sure – a fraction of what we a society rid of all authoritarian power would be? Can you had lost, whereas the capitalists who loot the common• see how egalitarian it would be? Are you willing to build wealth of our planet are allowed to live in peace. If we are such a society of freedom and equality? Well then, make refused the right to steal, there is nothing left for us but to the social revolution and have done with these rascally become beggars. Lo and behold, the capitalists, offended by politics. the spectacle, bestow alms upon the poor and afford them a For the sake of the advent of a society of freedom and little of the money that they have stolen from them: and equality, let us hope that you and your friends will soon upon this they bestow the fine•sounding name of charity. come together as one! As long as you endure it all with Some of them even have the effrontery to insult us because resignation, you will be fodder for the capitalists! we beg for our pittance instead of working for it. If you do not believe me, you will see for yourselves! Gentlemen! Can you be so sure that we do not want to Ba Jin work? It is more a case of our being denied work. Yet we Appeared in Banyue (Fortnight), Chengdu, China, No 17, are showered with insults. Looking at it from this angle, we 1 April 1921, over Ba Jin’s real name Li Feigan Inside: Free Speech – Reviews – News “The Fight For Free Speech in Tarrytown” In one of his best stories, Washington Irving, the famous imprisoned with eleven men, recalls the plight of Suga American author, records the fact that a sequestered spot Kanno in Japan. in the neighborhood of Tarrytown•on the Hudson has long On the following day, Sunday 31st, Alexander been known as Sleepy Hollow. “A drowsy, dreamy influ• Berkman, accompanied by Helen Harris, Dave Sullivan, ence,” he says, “seems to hang over the land and to Harry Wilkes, Joe De Rosa and others came out from New pervade the very atmosphere.” These words were written York and tried to speak. He set a chair in the street. nearly a hundred years ago, but have lost none of their “Fellow citizens,” he said, “I know you all admire a man freshness. Tarrytown is still sunk in deep slumber, and if who is fighting for his rights. We are fighting for free it shows faint signs of awakening, the signs are very speech, which the Constitution gives us. I care not what recent and can be traced to outside pressure. the police say. John D. Rockefeller may own this town, Early in May, Arthur Caron, one of the men who was but he can’t stop free speech.” At this point Berkman was “beaten up” by the New York police in connection with grabbed by the police and prevented from continuing his the recent unemployed demonstrations in Union Square, speech. All day long he and his companions kept on and one of the active spirits in the “Free Silence trying to speak. De Rosa, Sullivan and Wilkes were Movement” inaugurated by Upton Sinclair in front of arrested, and the first•named was badly bruised by police Rockefeller’s office at 26 Broadway, went with a group of violence. friends to Tarrytown to carry the anti•Rockefeller protest On the same evening, a band of about twenty more, to the very gates of the Rockefeller home in Pocantico mostly Italian and Spanish comrades, reinforced Berkman Hills. Out of his visit grew a plan to hold a public meeting and his group. They went to Fountain Square and tried to in Tarrytown at which Rockefeller and the situation in speak, but were pummeled and pushed about by the Colorado were to be discussed. Mr. Caron appealed to the police, and finally taken to the railway station and placed Free Speech league for co•operation, and the League aboard a train for New York. addressed to Mr. Pierson, the village head, a request for a On Monday, June 1st, De Rosa and Sullivan were permit for an out•door meeting. No reply was received. brought before the magistrate in Tarrytown and sentenced Mr. Caron and the head of the Free Speech League then to three months’ and thirty days’ imprisonment respec• had a personal interview with the Chief of Police in Tarry• tively. Following these outrageous sentences, the head of town, and repeated the request. The chief promised a the Free Speech League, who had been in Court, sought a reply, but failed to keep his promise. conference with Mr. Pierson, the village President. He It was not until after these peaceful overtures had been asked again for a permit for an out•door meeting in Tarry• rejected that “direct action” was resorted to. On Saturday town. The request was refused. evening, May 30th, twelve of our comrades went to Tarry• On the same day, Rev. J.E. Cates, of St. Paul’s Episco• town, namely: Rebecca Edelson, Arthur Caron, Charles E. pal Church in Tarrytown, challenged Berkman to debate Plunkett, Jack Isaacson, Frank Mandese, Louis Pastorella, the issue of free speech and the situation in Colorado in Maurice Rudome, Charles Bergh, Adolph Aufriecht, the church•yard of St. Paul’s. Berkman promptly accepted Joseph Secunda, Vincenzo Fabriciano and Jack Butler. the challenge, but Cates later withdrew it, on the ground The group went over to Fountain Square, the recognized that his fellow•clergymen in the town and the trustees of our•door meeting place at Tarrytown, where Socialists and his church objected.
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