EQUALITY

Equality proclaimed along with the freedom and the brotherhood of the French Revolution, is the undisputed principle of social relations and not only anarchists consider it fundamental principles of its social doctrine. From the mouths of many hearing today to decide without narrowing these three as meaningful and expressive words "liberty, fraternity and equality" as a song, hit. Moreover, they even adorn the entrance to the famous prison where hanging over their doors as a cruel mockery of history. To the extent those great principles of human progress have lost their true meaning in current usage, a people's speech.

Assuming that the ideal political democracy is realized that the place full equality of citizens before the law, that an ideal constitution applied also because of the "ideal" bodies "ideal" democratic state that guarantees absolutely the full legal equality, true equality will remain Even then, an illusion, since there is still a substantive inequality, expressed in private ownership and capitalism private and public, which is being shaped and always accompanied by monopoly privileges and hierarchy. What real value may be a proletarian, a poor peasant, a small staff and a craftsman his equality with the capitalist, with a large owner, manufacturer, a senior bureaucrat, since he has no equal with them a real opportunity to fully satisfy their material and comprehensive spiritual needs? This "equality" can be written in the book with gold letters can not be guaranteed by the guardian angels and archangels can be sung on all roads and intersections in all parliaments and tribunals, but it will always remain an illusion until no physical, economic equality.

While society continues to be divided into classes from power and managed by privileged and deprived of exploiters and exploited, while people are separated in a complex hierarchical system created a pyramid of social classes with conflicting interests, social solidarity can never find application as a universal principle.

Nobody better than Bakunin expressed it is not primary, determinant of gender as an indispensable principle of socialism: "Freedom without socialism (which means no tie) means privilege and injustice."

So, for anarchism and anarchists equality is not only a natural right, but also an essential condition to ensure public and personal liberty, the relationship of complete social solidarity and the emergence and maintenance of a sense of justice, the basis of morality and human ethics at all.

While the consciousness of freedom and a sense of solidarity persist in one form or another with considerable intensity, the sense of equality among the people has suffered the most tangible damage. Yet we find it reflected in the different religions - primitive philosophy of the people from time immemorial, in many sects, which reacted with the spirit of the original and pure truth of a religious philosophy. It is embedded in particular Christianity and Christian sects of different times. Application of the concept of equality found in the rural municipality in Slavic Fellowship in various free cities. We residues of this sense of equality in some folk traditions and folk wisdom. Do not miss signs of understanding and a sense of equality in the relationship of people even in today's society as deeply divided and torn by constant controversy. Not attach too much importance to these events that must be acknowledged, are isolated in nature, we can not ascertain, however, that progressively growing commercial spirit, together with the development of capitalism has not reached as to the point that people are drawn to scale, before boarding the train, the steamship, the airplane and vehicle fees to pay under their weight. Moreover, all passengers are treated equally in terms of luggage, which carry with them and who pay nothing, this is true, to some extent, even airplanes. The principle of equality also applies to schools a certain age to which education is absolutely free and with different social and material measures became possible for all children, even those of the poorest parents. Public libraries are another glaring example of equality in today's predatory society. Anyone can now freely use the free public library on equal terms. Some major Western libraries even have special services that enable them to use libraries in other cities and countries, as requested books are forwarded in a local library and stay there for some time, with nothing to pay for these services. This right is the same for a prince and a capitalist, and the last proletarian and poor. Indeed, the material conditions of life, while remaining different, given different opportunities for free time to devote to visiting libraries, but with the introduction of new forms, such as correspondence and use so-called "mobile library" is solved this problem somewhat.

But what is equality? And this difference between anarchists, socialists and other socialists are profound. For anarchists equality is not quantifiable, and moral concept - it covers the right to life. Marxist socialism and communism is primarily a production system, while communism is essentially anarchistic distribution, consumables. Since anarchism denies parasitism, ie the right to live in a foreign backup provided by monopoly ownership of the means of production, exchange and consumption, after recognizing the need for the socialization of these funds, it puts everyone's right, "born under the sun ", to benefit from all the material and spiritual goods according to their needs as well against the natural obligation to participate in the production of these goods by the forces and capabilities. Addressing the needs will be more complete, the higher is the production and technical level. Use will be full and unlimited for good things in plenty. Use of all other goods will be provided in accordance with the potential size and extent of needs in some cases and according to quantitative equality in other cases.

For anarchists equality is not arithmetic, Pharmaceutical scales, although its base to its roots in the social economy. It is not the economy, and ethics - a moral principle. In this respect manifests the concept of equality, even in today's society and in people who otherwise might not have the concept of socialism. In the case of poverty, of lack, and disaster in society and family in the allocation of scarce goods, preference shall be given not to those who have the highest merit for their production, and the children, the sick, the aged, women are weak. Here anarchism appears closer to the people, more natural than mercantile socialism, which led to monstrous stahanovizam to cruel udarnichestvo mixed with party forgery and denial of all humanity.

True equality is not built on merit, qualifications, capabilities, inherited or acquired rights and hierarchy, and the absolute recognition of the irreplaceable value of every human being. True equality is not only material but also moral field of human events. For him, any oppression, any servility, any underestimation or overestimation of the individual means negation of equality. It is the sense of dignity, which, without denying respect for the human person and despises all authority. Therefore, true equality is antiavtoritarno, bezvlastnichesko because where there is authority, power, and there can not have equality.

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