Anarchism Practical

Anarchism Practical.

A great many people, and particularly twilight reformers of the Single Tax type, are continually asserting that Anarchism is a dream, a vision or utopia, impossible of realization. This idea it seems to me is one of the chief things the Anarchist propagandist should knock on the head whenever it confronts him.

Let us try to make it clear that Anarchy, instead of being a dream, is a practical up-to-date reform, and can be realized as soon as a sufficient number of people understand it, which need not be a majority by a long ways.

Let us try to make it plain that no one can read history right and be anything but an Anarchist. Let us show that no matter when or where or in what line of human activity liberty has been tried it has always been beneficial; and inasmuch as it has solved the greatest problems in the past, so it will in the future. And, last but not least, let us make it plain that it never can be achieved by simply discussing it in a half-hearted way in social and business circles. It requires grit, determination, and backbone.

H. W. Koehn