Quelques citations de ces quatre anarchistes des USA.
Josiah Warren (1798-1874):
"Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together."
"The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony."
Lysander Spooner (1808-1887):
"To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.."
"Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given."
"Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it."
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
"Les vices sont ces actes par lesquels un homme blesse sa personne ou sa propriété. Les crimes sont ces actes par lesquels un homme blesse la personne ou la propriété d'autrui."
Stephen Andrews (1812-86):
"The true lesson of political wisdom is simply this: that no interests should ever be entrusted to a combination which are too important to be surrendered understandingly and voluntarily to the guidance of a despotism. Government, therefore, in the present sense of the term, can never, from the very essential nature of the case, be compatible with the safety of the liberties of the people, until the sphere of its authority is reduced to the very narrowest dimensions."
Benjamin Tucker (1854-1939):
"If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State."
"The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority."
"The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows." (Benjamin Tucker, 1854-1939) [on pense à Hérodote, -480/-425: "Donnez tout pouvoir à l'homme le plus vertueux qui soit, vous le verrez bientôt changer d'attitude.", à Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804): "La possession du pouvoir corrompt inévitablement la raison.", à Fénelon (1651-1715): "Tel serait sage dans une condition médiocre qui devient insensé quand il est le maître du monde." ou à John Steinbeck (1902-68): "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power."]
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Un précurseur de l'anarchisme (Gracchus Babeuf, 1760-97) est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/070722/le-vrai-citoyen-prefere-lavantage-general-son-avantage
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (qui me semble, lui-aussi, plus profond que ces quatre américains-là) est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/180421/letat-ment-froidement-son-mensonge-est-moi-l-etat-je-suis-le-peuple
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