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question, What is it that renders it possible for people to make laws? The same thing makes it possible to establish laws as enforces obedience to them-organised violence.

WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS?

CHAPTER XIII.

WHAT ARE GOVERNMENTS? IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXIST WITHOUT GOVERNMENTS?

THE cause of the miserable condition of the workers is slavery. The cause of slavery is legislation. Legislation rests on organised violence.

It follows that an improvement in the condition of the people is possible only through the abolition of organised violence.

"But organised violence is government, and how can we live without governments? Without governments there will be chaos, anarchy; all the achievements of civilisation will perish, and people will revert to their primitive barbarism."

It is usual not only for those to whom the existing order is profitable, but even for those

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