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<p>(repost)<br>
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In zijn afwijzing van een centrale overheid was Proudhon radicaal.
Een<br>
mooi en overtuigend voorbeeld hiervan is de volgende welbespraakte<br>
passage uit (de Engelse vertaling van) Idée générale de la
révolution au<br>
XIXe sièclee, choix d’études sur la pratique révolutionnaire et<br>
industrielle (1851):<br>
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<b>To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon,
directed,</b><b><br>
</b><b>law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated,
preached at,</b><b><br>
</b><b>controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured,
commanded, by</b><b><br>
</b><b>creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor
the virtue to do</b><b><br>
</b><b>so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every
transaction</b><b><br>
</b><font color="#f93c3e"><b><i>noted, registered, counted,
taxed, stamped, measured, numbered,</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished,
prevented, forbidden,</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>reformed, corrected, punished</i></b></font><b>.
It is, under pretext of public utility,</b><b><br>
</b><b>and in the name of the general interest,</b><font
color="#f93c3e"><b><i> to be place[d] under</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited,
monopolized, extorted from,</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b></font><b><i><font color="#f93c3e">squeezed, hoaxed,
robbed;</font> </i>then, at the slightest resistance, the
first</b><b><br>
</b><b>word of complaint,<i> <font color="#f93c3e">to be
repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted</font></i></b><font
color="#f93c3e"><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound,
choked, imprisoned, judged,</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold,
betrayed; and to crown all,</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged,
dishonored</i></b></font><b>. <u>That is government;</u></b><u><b><br>
</b></u><u><b>that is its justice; that is its morality.</b></u></font><br>
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Vernietigender is de werking van een overheid zelden beschreven.<br>
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