[News from Nowhere by William Morris]@TWC D-Link bookNews from Nowhere CHAPTER XI: CONCERNING GOVERNMENT 4/5
But tell me out what they were. (H.) If the government habitually destroyed wealth, the country must have been poor? (I) Yes, certainly. (H.) Yet amidst this poverty the persons for the sake of whom the government existed insisted on being rich whatever might happen? (I) So it was. (H.) What must happen if in a poor country some people insist on being rich at the expense of the others? (I) Unutterable poverty for the others.
All this misery, then, was caused by the destructive government of which we have been speaking? (H.) Nay, it would be incorrect to say so.
The government itself was but the necessary result of the careless, aimless tyranny of the times; it was but the machinery of tyranny.
Now tyranny has come to an end, and we no longer need such machinery; we could not possibly use it since we are free.
Therefore in your sense of the word we have no government.
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