ABSTRACT
The anarchy of Proudhon was visionary, humanitarian, and idealistic. But the older anarchism is as ancient as tyranny, and never at any moment has it ceased to menace human civilization. Moreover, under the anarchism proposed by Proudhon and Bakounin, the maintenance of property rights, public order, and personal security would be left to voluntary effort, that is to say, to private enterprise. Individuals, no matter how powerful, are not to-day permitted to organize armies to invade a foreign land, to subdue its people, and to wrest from them their property. And perhaps the most notable step in that direction was that development of the State which took away the right of the nobles to employ and maintain their own private armies. Yet the fact is that now, without legal authority, private armies may be employed and are indeed actually employed in the United States.
