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Some in the face of such awful accumulations longer relevant or which have been whatever they produce and should be less or is less skilled at a particular produce more, some produce less, and Editorial ......................................... .. Page 2 of political and economic might. It is shown to be based upon false principles. free to occupy and use only that land occupation. But economic inequality there is no injustice in the fact that this Individualism and Equality easy to feel it is not worth the effort, or Larry Gambone’s Ariana"/Jiir Creda, which they can put to use without would not have the same significance in would result in different amounts of by Peacott ............................... .. Page 2 that the effort is ultimately pointless. published in Total Liberty Vol. 3 employing the labour of others. Of a non-capitalist anarchist society that it wealth. A society or community that A Teenage Anarchist Speaks by That perhaps we should follow Number 4, and reproduced again in this course, being anarchists, we also does in today’s societies. Patrick MacLeod Cullen, 16......... Page 3 prohibited those who so desired from Volta.ire’s advice and cultivate our own issue, outlines some of the more maintain that individuals would be free The differences in wealth that arise in It‘s a VI/onder Anything Works retaining the full value of what they garden. While there is no choice but to important anarchist principles. For to pool their labour, property, an.d/or an individualist community would likely by Larry Gazmbone ...................... .. ii’ FD U1 produce in order to create an artificial U0 be realistic about the minuscule current Respect My Authority! example, that we reject violence as a land in order to increase their economic be relatively small. \V1thout the ability to economic levelling would infringe on the by Richard Griffin ....................... .. Page 6 level of influence of the various tactic, that genuine anarchists act with efficiency, better provide for others in profit from the labour of others, freedom of individuals and thus violate a Getting that Message Out There anarchist journals, it is important neither respect and responsibility towards need, or simply enjoy the company of generate interest from providing credit, basic anarchist principle. by Steve Booth ............................ .. Page 7 to underestimate it, nor to forget the others, that we act ethically, that we are their fellows. But these would still be or extort rent from letting out land or .As for those who produce little or Government, Society and its possible future influence we may have. resolutely against the state, that we are voluntary, private arrangements, wherein property, individuals would not be nothing because of some disability, there Critics by Dick Frost ................... .. Page 8 In some of the darkest days of the opposed to taxation, that we oppose the individuals concerned would share capable of generating the huge quantities are other means of providing for the less Wefl Fares the State Soviet Union, when few in either Russia coercion, that we accept that anarchism die products of their labour and of assets that people can in a capitalist fortunate than communal economic by John Griffin ............................... Page 10 or the West were predicting the collapse does not imply any particular economic Reviews by contribute to the joint project as long as system. Furthermore, the anarchist with arrangements. There is a long tradition of that hellish leviathan, there were system but leaves us free as individuals R.