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The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be
exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate
and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of
governments. It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to
enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it; and where
the habit of resisting such encroachment is not fostered, and the
individual is not taught to be jealous of his rights, individuality
gradually disappears and the government or State becomes the all-in-all.
Control naturally accompanies responsibility. Under the system of State
Socialism, therefore, which holds the community responsible for the
health, wealth, and wisdom of the individual, it is evident that the
community, through its majority expression, will insist more and more in
prescribing the conditions of health, wealth, and wisdom, thus impairing
and finally destroying individual independence and with it all sense of
individual responsibility.
Whatever, then, the State Socialists may claim or disclaim, their
system, if adopted, is doomed to end in a State religion, to the expense
of which all must contribute and at the altar of which all must kneel; a
State school of medicine, by whose practitioners the sick must
invariably be treated; a State system of hygiene, prescribing what all
must and must not eat, drink, wear, and do; a State code of morals,
which will not content itself with punishing crime, but will prohibit
what the majority decide to be vice; a State system of instruction,
which will do away with all private schools, academies, and colleges; a
State nursery, in which all children must be brought up in common at the
public expense; and, finally, a State family, with an attempt at
stirpiculture, or scientific breeding, in which no man and woman will be
allowed to have children if the State prohibits them and no man and
woman can refuse to have children if the State orders them. Thus will
Authority achieve its acme and Monopoly be carried to its highest power.
- Benjamin Tucker
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