Anarchy

Chapter 2: EDITOR’S NOTE

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The text investigates tensions between individual liberty and state power, asking whether pursuit of freedom logically leads to rejecting government or to endorsing limited authority. It surveys major anarchist thinkers and currents, tracing critiques of private property and state institutions, distinctions among peaceful philosophical anarchism, collectivist proposals, and revolutionary strains, and contrasts anarchist aims with Marxist and statist solutions. Through historical examples and conceptual analysis, it clarifies what advocates mean by abolishing governmental coercion and examines practical and ethical objections to equating anarchy with disorder.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Robert LeFevre, president and founder of the Freedom School, has also served as the editorial writer for the Gazette Telegraph in Colorado Springs, since 1954. In addition to several thousand editorials, he has written numerous articles for the Freeman Magazine, including: “The Straight Line,” “Jim Leadbetter’s Discovery,” “Shades of Hammurabi,” “Grasshoppers and Widows,” and “Coercion at the Local Level.”

His article “Even the Girl Scouts” (Human Events, 1953) led to a recall of the Handbook of this organization and extensive revisions. His book, “The Nature of Man and His Government,” has recently been published by Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho.