Anarchy 31/Anarchism and practicability

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An­arch­ism and prac­tic­ab­il­ity

JEFF ROBIN­SON

Ask the present people of Bri­tain if they would like to live in a peace­ful, class­less, race­less so­ci­ety and the only dis­sent­ers would be those who ima­gined they had some­thing to lose or who for reas­ons of per­sonal in­ad­equacy or sup­port of re­ac­tion­ary ideas ap­prove of hier­arch­ical so­ci­ety and dread a world of free and equal hu­man be­ings. Ex­plain to the as­sent­ers the prob­able time scale, the fact that much of ‘our Brit­ish way of life’ must be dis­carded, and that the per­sonal ef­fort in­volves much more than a vote every 5 years and their num­ber greatly di­min­ished. There re­mains those people who are dis­en­chanted with present so­ci­ety, see the need for rad­ical change and, most im­port­ant, are pre­pared to do some­thing about it.