[D66] To be GOVERNED

[R.O.]

(repost)

In zijn afwijzing van een centrale overheid was Proudhon radicaal. Een
mooi en overtuigend voorbeeld hiervan is de volgende welbespraakte
passage uit (de Engelse vertaling van) Idée générale de la révolution au
XIXe sièclee, choix d’études sur la pratique révolutionnaire et
industrielle (1851):

*To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed,**
**law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at,**
**controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by**
**creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do**
**so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction**
**/noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered,/**/
/**/assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden,/**/
/**/reformed, corrected, punished/**. It is, under pretext of public 
utility,**
**and in the name of the general interest,**/to be place[d] under/**/
/**/contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted 
from,/**/
/**/squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; /then, at the slightest resistance, the 
first**
**word of complaint,/to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted/**/
/**/down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged,/**/
/**/condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown 
all,/**/
/**/mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored/**. _That is 
government;_*_*
*__*that is its justice; that is its morality.*_

Vernietigender is de werking van een overheid zelden beschreven.


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