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- Title: Fools (Short Story)
- Author : Northwest Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 101 KB
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A lot of people always thought anarchists were fools. I graduated from high school in 1924, and even during my childhood, when the fiercest wing of anarchists still believed in propaganda of the deed and threw bombs and shot at world leaders, people thought they did it out of a bloody kind of sappiness, a laughable naivete All this laughing, I came to think, ignored the number of things a person could be a fool for in this life--a fool for love, a fool for Christ, a fool for admiration. I had friends who were all of these, as it turned out. But I took my own route. I wasn't born an anarchist. I read myself into it. And they were qualified beliefs anyway, tempered and limited and curved into my own angles. Bur what I loved in anarchism, from the first, was the obvious truth in it: people had gotten it all wrong to expect justice from any state. Power never protected the weak, it only protected itself. Tyranny was built into the system. The clarity of this argument was pretty stunning, I thought, and so was its insistence that this didn't have to continue, despite its long human history.