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To-day at Fair Use Repository: G. E. Lind vs. Ross Winn on “Anarchism Exploded,” from FREE SOCIETY, Feb. 16, 1902.

Lind: “Anarchism declares war on the State, which is just as nonsensical as the Democrats ‘smashing the trusts,’ etc. Socialism would not smash the trusts or declare war on the State, but will absorb the State, and by so doing will absorb the trusts…”

Winn: “By establishing the most gigantic trust conceivable—a State monopoly. It is not the forms of monopoly that are evil; but its essence—the principle that abrogates liberty—that sets bounds upon the play of social activity.”

Lind: “… and all the instruments of production and distribution, the result of which would be the abolition of economic classes and consequently the abolition of the oppressive capitalistic State, and the inauguration of the cooperative commonwealth.”

Winn: “But your cooperative commonwealth, administered by State officials, will have society divided into two classes—the workers and the governmental directors of industries. The State ‘boss’ with unlimited power, will constitute a class, and consequently the cooperative commonwealth will not abolish ‘the class struggle.'”

“Anarchism Exploded”