ABSTRACT

To renounce or despair of the antipower struggle is to accept injustice and oppression as normal and final. The meek, in fact, must not be thought to be devoid of strength or unable to use it. The antipower struggle is renounced not so much when specifically antipower organizations are lacking as when nothing is done to denounce, prevent, and hinder the misdeeds and the hypocrisies of power. Political organizations tend to enforce alienation of conscience, to measure man according to his usability, and to make power absolute. Something of the anarchist society is achieved in every instance in which a person or an organization meets with the respect of other organizations and persons. Faith in ethical success, and ethical success itself, are nourished not by organizations straining to affirm and extend their claim to ethicality but by their being neighbored, and credited with ethicality, by other ethical organizations.