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It is the artificial constructions of senti- 

 mental science which have given birth to this 

 idea correct as far as it concerns them that 

 socialism is synonymous with tyranny. 



It is evident that if the new social organi- 

 sation is not the spontaneous form of human 

 evolution, but rather the artificial construction 

 proceeding fully developed from the brain of 

 a social architect, the latter would be obliged 

 to discipline the new social mechanism by 

 an infinite number of regulations, and by the 

 superior authority which it will give to a 

 directing spirit, individual or collective. It 

 can then be understood how such an organi- 

 sation gives our opponents, who only see in 

 the individualist world the advantages of 

 liberty, and who forget the evils which freely 

 spring from it, the impressions of a convent, 

 a regimentation, etc.* 



Another artificial contemporary product 

 State socialism has confirmed this impres- 

 sion. At the bottom, it does not differ from 

 sentimental or Utopian socialism, and as 

 Liebknecht said at the Berlin Socialist Con- 

 gress in 1892, " It would be a State capitalism 

 which would join political slavery to economic 

 exploitation." State socialism is a symptom 

 of the irresistible power of scientific and demo- 

 cratic socialism as is shown by the famous 

 rescripts of the Emperor William convoking an 

 international conference to solve (that is the 

 childish idea of the decree) the problems of 



* It is this artificial socialism which Herbert Spencer 

 attacks in his essay From Freedom to Bondage, re- 

 published in the third volume of his Essays. 



