all good people are asleep and dreaming.
the sacrifice of the individual and
their property has always been justified
as a virtuous acts for the preservation
of society the collective and the state
this justification this Dogma upheld by
philosophy and politics has served as a
basis for power it has never been true
it will never be true and it cannot be
true that there is an interest on earth
to which I owe the sacrifice there are
only individuals I am an individual my
interests are equal to that of any other
i own nothing to the collective for i am
part of the collective i owe nothing to
the government for the government gives
me nothing in fact has nothing to give
me except that which it takes from me do
I then deny collective interest
certainly not society is the inevitable
consequence of the aggregation of
individuals collective interest is an
unavoidable deduction from the
aggregation of private interests
collective interest can only be complete
so far as private interests remain
intact if collective interest is defined
as the interest of all the moment the
interest of a single individual in
society is injured collective interest
is no longer the interest of all and
consequently has ceased to this if the
community needs to run a road through my
field it may compensate me here it is my
interests that governs for individual
right ways over collective rights I have
the same interests that the community
has for having the road but not in
sacrifice to myself so it is the
community's interest to indentify me
which moves my interest to you such is
the collective interest that Springs
from the nature of things but when you
close my establishment forbid me to work
restrict my free speech prohibit me from
being a doctor or a lawyer based on the
virtue of my private studies and my
clientele order me not to buy this and
not to so bad when in shorts you call
collective interest that which you
invoke in order to prohibit me
from earning my living in the open day
then I declare I do not understand you
let us leave this frightful and
outrageous fiction behind let us
acknowledge that the only way to protect
collective interest is to protect the
individual
