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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
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Subject: Found in a strange place...
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Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 23:14:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 10 23:14:27 1985
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Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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Summary: 

[Comes the revolution, we'll shoot the laborers, and automate.]

The following was found hiding in an anarchist document. It is presented
with very little comment. All errors can be assumed to be the transcribers.

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		DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS

    FREE MARKET: That condition of society in which all economic
transactions result from voluntary choice without coercion.

    THE STATE: That institution which interferes with the Free Market
through the direct exercise of coercion or the granting of privileges
(backed by coercion).

    TAX: That form of coercion or interference with the Free Market in
which the state collects tribute (the tax), allowing it to hire armed
forces to practice coercion in defense of privilege, and also to engage in
such wars, adventures, experiments, "reforms," etc., as it pleases, not at
its own cost, but at the cost of "its" subjects.

    PRIVILEGE: From the Latin privi, private, and lege, law. An advantage
granted by the State and protected by its powers of coercion. A law for
private benefit.

    USURY: That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in
which one State-supported group monopolizes the coinage and thereby takes
tribute (interest), direct or indirect, on all or most economic
transactions.

    LANDLORDISM: That form of privilege or interference with the Free
Market in which one State-supported group "owns" the land and thereby takes
tribute (rent) from those who live, work, or produce on the land.

    TARIFF: That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in
which commodities produced outside the State are not allowed to compete
equally with those produced inside the State.

    CAPITALISM: That organization of society, incorporating elements of
tax, usury, landlordism, and tariff, which thus denies the Free Market
while pretending to exemplify it.

    CONSERVATISM: That school of capitalist philosophy which claims
allegiance to the Free Market while actually supporting usury, landlordism,
tariff, and sometimes taxation.

    LIBERALISM: That school of capitalist philosophy which attempts to
correct the injustices of capitalism by adding new laws to the existing
laws. Each time conservatives pass a law creating privilege, liberals pass
another law modifying privilege, leading conservatives to pass a more
subtle law recreating privilege, etc., until "everything not forbidden is
compulsory" and "everything not compulsory is forbidden."

    SOCIALISM: The attempted abolition of all privilege by restoring power
to the coercive agent behind privilege, the State, thereby converting
capitalist oligarchy into Statist monopoly. Whitewashing a wall by painting
it black.

    ANARCHISM: That organization of society in which the Free Market
operates freely, without taxes, usury, landlordism, tariffs, or other forms
of coercion or privilege. RIGHT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market
people would voluntarily choose to compete more often than to cooperate.
LEFT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily
choose to cooperate more often than to compete.

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The little comment: This points out another major problem with what some
(not all) socialists want. They're going to replace the little monopolies
and oligopolies with one big monopoly (on *everything*), and give it the
power to shoot its competition with impunity. And this is supposed to be an
improvement.