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Martin William Smith <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky said in "Interview with Read and Black Revolution (1995)":

"That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism:
the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority,
and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met."

Doesn't this mean that a a coercive government structure is justified,
and required, for the purpose of enforcing the burden of proof
requirement and the dismantling of structures that can't meet it?

martin

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