Show ANARCHY A MISTAKE I ANA1C II I Count Malatestaa definition of the I anarchist creed given to the Worlds I London correspondent is interesting because It gives the best reason which the recognized intellectual leader of I anarchy can give for such crimes as the murder of King Humbert You ask us what we want says Malatesta We want to expropriate the holders of social wealth We would have all this world all that it contains of gootj or evil shared In equal measure mea-sure by the great and small Assuming for the moment that the equal division of all the worlds wealth I is both a practicable and a dcslrablo end It Is very evident that tho killing of one king or ten kings or all kings will not bring It about Tho fundamental mistake of tho anarchist an-archist Is his enormous exaggeration exaggerton of the Importance of Individual men a king an emperor n president or a prime ministerto tho existence of I government and social order He pays oi monarchs too much deference He I I overestimates their weight in the scale of hUman affairs He falls to dlstln j I gulsh between the ship of state and its j 1 figurehead He strikes at the mere I shadow ow andsymbol of government and i fails to sue that the substance and I I reality of government are in the great body of the people He Sen I fact that without the general consent I of mankind the existing social order cannot be changed even though the kings themselves turned anarchists and advocated the equal division of wealth which according to Malatesta anarchy alms to bring about New York World I |