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| | Part 1 of the unfinished essay: "The State" - Antiwar.com |
 | | The State is the country acting as a political unit, it is the group acting as a repository of force, determiner of law, arbiter of justice. |
 | | Its vanguard, as the I.W.W., is remorselessly pursued, in spite of the proof that it is a symptom, not a cause, and its persecution increases the disaffection of labor and intensifies the friction instead of lessening it. |
 | | The sanctity of the State becomes identified with the sanctity of the ruling class, and the latter are permitted to remain in power under the impression that in obeying and serving them, we are obeying and serving society, the nation, the great collectivity of all of us. |
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