Note 6 — XVI. ANARCHISM A BUNDLE OF CONTRADICTIONS. Credo quia absurdum.
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“Police and jails do not contradict Anarchism.” (Liberty, New York, December 26, 1891.) “Anarchism recognises the right to arrest, try, convict, and punish for wrong-doing, if by wrong-doing is meant invasion.... If it can find no better instrument of resistance to invasion, Anarchism will use prisons.” (Liberty, New York, October 24, 1885.)
“The Anarchism of to-day affirms the right of society to coerce the individual, and of the individual to coerce society, so far as either has the requisite power.” (Liberty, New York, June 7, 1890.)