[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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