ABSTRACT
Uncritically identifying absence of government with anarchy in the pejorative sense, they fail to realize that anarchy in that sense is a correct description of any order that is not the ethical order. Permeation of the State by ethical elements and use of its organs for the exercise of the rule of authority is partly a reality already, and it would be foolish to disregard the possibilities offered. There are areas where authority has been established and is adequately defended by its builders and its guardians. But there are others—whole continents, in fact—where power is entrenched firmly, is hardly affected by permeation, and under heavy or thin disguise carries out its business of oppression and exploitation. The conditions obtaining on the morrow of the overthrow of an incompetent and oppressive regime are a crucial test of the genuineness and strength of the anti-power credited with the revolutionary victory.
