ABSTRACT
Anarchism was dead and is alive. It exists once more as a political force, though it is decried and praised with ignorant enthusiasm. Anarchism as a political force has often been brough to nothing by fanaticism on that point. In the name of liberty and spontaneity, anarchists have declined to compromise with their innter light to the extend required for carrying out a political program, or even for formulating political demands. The anarchists' faith in men's social inventiveness and in their ability to find solutions for their problems on their own, in the absence of lawgivers, kings, and commissars, has made them unpopular with the authoritarians on the Left. They are accused of infantilism, sentimentality, naivete. The majority of men are a living sacrifice to the machine, and they may soon be a dead one. Neither capitalism nor socialism has any serious objection to our martyrdom by technology.
