There Is No "Free Society": Individualist Essays

A "free society" is an impossibility. The libertarian and anarchist criticism of the State made by libertarians is not enough, since society will always remain, and social constraint is far more insidious; it: "fetters the individual with a thousand small, invisible ties, aiming to transform him into a good herdling."

In these essays, Georges Palante not only demolishes the "social dogmas" but builds on their ruins, substituting hypothesis, sensibility and intuition for dogma, and in place ...