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Excerpt from A Catechism of Individualism
They do, but it is a pure delusion. Organised means arranged like an organism. The human body is an organism. In it digestion, assimilation, nutrition, and expulsion of waste - processes which correspond to the feeding, clothing, travelling, and other activities of society - go on normally not only without the interference of the brain, which is the government, but without its knowledge. If, then, the five millions in London get without fail daily their milk, bread, papers, and everything they want without the interference of government, society in London is organised. Also in a free society government is carried on by certain units elected by the others for a definite and limited purpose. The cells of the brain are not elected by the cells of the bones and muscles. In a society the life of the units is higher and more varied than that of the whole, in an organism it is just the reverse.
But Socialists say that production is now carried on in the interest and for the profit of the class that owns the means of production.
Anyone can see the falsity of that statement. There are producers in my village who own neither land, house, nor factory, nor anything but such tools as they have bought with their savings as wage earners. The mightiest busi nesses have all had a similar origin.
Then there is no such class as the Socialists speak of, bound together by a common interest against the rest of society?
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