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Anarchism & Justice By R.A. CHILDS, Jr. |If you find this
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twentieth century has in many ways seen a reversion to an
earlier period of human history. Before the eighteenth century,
there existed everywhere in the "civilized" world an
identifiable "Old Order," a regime of caste and privilege, of
feudalism, monarchism, despotism of statism, where the ruling
castes of each political society governed by the alleged "right"
of conquest and divine inspiration, and ruled by means of
military might. But in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries, for the first time in mankind's history,
there arose a number of revolutionary movements designed to
overthrow the "Old Order," to abolish the society of status and
replace it with the society of contract, to establish a society
of liberty, free trade and individualism, where only