Men Against the State
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Men Against the State (1953)
by James J. Martin (1916-2004)
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The following is a chapter from James J. Martin's seminal work, Men Against the State, covering some of the consequences of the American ‘war between the states’ in the 19th century and their effects on individualist anarchist thinking—at least among its more prominent proponents. “War is the health of the state,” as Randolph Bourne later observed, and indeed this fact was rather salient in the post-Civil War period as the effects of wartime measures transformed into permanent features of the socio-politico-economic landscape. This led to the emergence of a new breed of American individualist anarchists inspired by their practical-minded forebears, but opposed to the state on a more fundamental philosophical level. Their literature is the legacy of American individualist anarchism in its incipient stages.
