By Benjamin R. Tucker
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This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital. Without it there can be no valid philosophy of politics. Upon this distinction and the other considerations just outlined, the Anarchists frame the desired definitions. This, then, is· the An... will. the A~" arcpistic debnitionof the St~te: the embodiment of theprin.. , - As to the meaning of the remain.. ins term j~ the subject ullder discussion, the word Hindividual,"I think therei~Jittledifficulty. ,Putting aside the subtletie,s,.
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader;· and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy. On the other hand, he who resists another's attempt to control is not an aggressor, an invader, a governor, but simply a defender, a protector; and the nature of such resistance is not changed whether it be offered by one man to another man, as when one repels a criminal's onslaught, or by one man to all other men, as when one declines to obey an oppressive law, or by all men to one man, as when a subject people rises against a despot, or as when the members of a community voluntarily unite to restrain a criminal.
So fast, please. Can it he soberly pretended for a moment that the State, /even as it exists herein America, is purely a defensive institution? •. Surely not, save. by those who . see of •the State only its most palpable manifesta~ion,--the. policeman on the. have to watch him very closely to see the. error of this claim. ' How. it possible to. 'se~rningsto pay . for protection. which-he •. has not. sought and. does not desire? And, if. this is. yictim is given, instead. br~ad, a stone, instead of protection, oppression?