georgephillip
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According to Mikhail Bakunin, chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism and prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, self preservation at all cost is the bedrock principle of all states:
"'The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost,' wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. 'And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth, have been condemned to perpetual struggle—a struggle against their own populations, whom they oppress and ruin, a struggle against all foreign States, every one of which can be strong only if the others are weak—and since the States cannot hold their own in this struggle unless they constantly keep on augmenting their power against their own subjects as well as against the neighborhood States—it follows that the supreme law of the State is the augmentation of its power to the detriment of internal liberty and external justice.'”
States behave in this way because every state since the first has existed to serve its richest citizens at the expense of its majority.
This will not change until citizens demand a "wall of separation" between their state and the corrupting influences of private wealth.
The Ordeal of Stanley L. Cohen Justice as farce B Editor s Choice B Axisoflogic.com
"'The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost,' wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. 'And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth, have been condemned to perpetual struggle—a struggle against their own populations, whom they oppress and ruin, a struggle against all foreign States, every one of which can be strong only if the others are weak—and since the States cannot hold their own in this struggle unless they constantly keep on augmenting their power against their own subjects as well as against the neighborhood States—it follows that the supreme law of the State is the augmentation of its power to the detriment of internal liberty and external justice.'”
States behave in this way because every state since the first has existed to serve its richest citizens at the expense of its majority.
This will not change until citizens demand a "wall of separation" between their state and the corrupting influences of private wealth.
The Ordeal of Stanley L. Cohen Justice as farce B Editor s Choice B Axisoflogic.com