This distinction between invasion and resistance, between government and defence, is vital. Without it there can be no valid philosophy of politics. Upon this distinction and the other considerations just outlined, the Anarchists frame the desired definitions. This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will. And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the at…

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the…

We designate by the term 'State' institutions that embody absolutism in its extreme form and institutions that temper it with more or less liberality. We apply…

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance-nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other pol…

Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.

The advent of liberty is incompatible with the existence of States.