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Title: Sniping
Author: Laurance Labadie
Date: 193-?
Language: en
Topics: individualism
Source: Retrieved 03/07/2022 from https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/my-own-little-labadie-collection

Laurance Labadie

Sniping

The social problem simmers down to the question: Who is to do what,

when, where, and how? There are only two logical solutions--the

delegating of function by authority, or the weeding out of incompetency

and corruption by the natural effect of free choice reacting on

competitive endeavor.

Common ownership with difference of opinion leads to dissatisfaction,

coercion, or a fight—the inevitable outcome of all schemes embodying the

organic conception of society—they all go to pieces against that

perpetual factor—individuality. Utopians are ever checkmated in the face

of difference of opinion which often impels them to become brutes.

When will men understand that social harmony comes through

dissassociation, the right of secession—Liberty?

The possibility of changing the motives which move men to action is

questionable; but it is certain that the relative intensities of these

motives may be changed.

Any proposed economic which ignores or challenges the fact that, as a

general rule, individuals in their productive capacity endeavor to get

as much as they can with as little effort as possible can only be the

utopian wish of incompetents.

Economics becomes a science only upon the emergence of competitive

effort. Otherwise it is just the whim, arbitrary decision, and dictation

of a ruling clique.

The injection of legal interferences into an economic order which

promise a living without working for it is similar to the proverbial

attempts to lift one’s self by one’s bootstraps. On such promises do

demogogues and quacks rise to office.

In the land of Liberty, when men differ they will separate and compete,

thereby maintaining freedom and independence in a co-operative order.

Ah, competition! The impelling force of example! The enemy of the

ignorance, sloth, inertia, and stubbornness of man! The natural factor

of social control! Thine enemy, government, hamstrings you with monopoly

and privilege through that anti-social, brutalizing and corrupting

machine, that foe of progress—the State.

A competent organization of society necessitates competition, hence the

communist, a hater of competition, proves by his emotional antipathy his

admission of incompetency.

Notwithstanding the humanitarian claims and utopian aspirations of its

exponents, Communism is compulsory cooperation, a fact which no amount

of good intention can disguise, warning against this threatening social

error which, together with the effects of capitalist monopolies is

providing a fertile field for reaction and fascist demogogy.

The criticism which free speech, free press, and. free assembly implies,

and the free association which liberty demands, would destroy communism

in six months. For as soon as secession is allowed, and liberty and

independence made factors of social control, communism as a system

ceases, a fact and objective difficult to comprehend by those who

consider the stomach the ruler of the brain.

All profit is made in exchange, and the predicament of both parties and

the nature of the exchange are the only things that can influence the

relative advantages involved.

The social problem is predominately one of money and credit and the

battle now on is between two brands of despots, private monopolists and

government monopolists whose quack schemes rain down on a bewildered

public. The governmental mind is incapable of imagining the feasibility

of resorting to liberty and competition to solve the problem, but rather

believe that the social question is a matter of enacting laws and

erecting monopolies.

A change in name is not a change in nature. In all places and at all

times, government has meant the enslavement and exploitation of the many

by the few, the ratio being determined by the power of the State. It

makes but slight difference, all government is organized gangsterism.

Political supremacy involves economic supremacy, and economic supremacy

involves either exploitation or paternalism or both.

The greatest single step in the direction of social liberation is the

demolition of the theory of the natural depravity and subserviency of

man—the fundamental doctrine of all religious faiths.

The battle cry of the social revolution will be, “Away with Communism!

Down with the State!”

Laurance Labadie.