Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER TWO ATTEMPT AT THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF ANARCHIST COMMUNISM Anarchism leads to communism and communism to anarchism. P. Kropotkin. The communist state which would be brought into existence by the proletarian revolution, would be nothing else than a titanic system of landed proprietorship, embracing all the land in the country. A. Daniel, 1910. A state which should undertake the comprehensive care of all members of the population on equal terms.. '. would be the most complete renewal of the matriarchal type of community of primitive days. E. Lorenz. I Definitions BEFORE we attempt the psychoanalysis of anarchist communism, we must explain what we understand by the term, and must forestall a number of possible misunderstandings. Many believe that anarchism, as extreme individualism, and communism, as extreme socialism, are polar opposites. Some assume that these poles come in contact, in virtue of the principle that extremes meet. This view is erroneous. It would be superfluous to expound here the problems of individualism and socialism. Enough to refer to the trends of anarchism and communism as ordinarily understood and as enunciated by their most distinguished advocates. Anarchism demands the abolition, not only of dominion, despotism, authority forcibly exercised over the individual, but in general of laws, regulations, and restrictions. Communism does not imply the maximum of social cooperation, but the direct psychical fusion of individuals in a manner that would annihilate all partitions between them. Why, then, does one aim involve the other? Anarchism wishes to abolish rules and restrictions. Should this be effected, there would necessarily ensue a war of all against all, the absolute dissolution of the community. But this is...
