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Socialism Is Legal Plunder
Mr. de Montalembert has been accused of desiring to fight
socialism by the use of brute force. He ought to be exonerated
from this accusation, for he has plainly said: "The war that
we must fight against socialism must be in harmony with law,
honor, and justice."
But why does not Mr. de
Montalembert see that he has placed himself in a vicious circle?
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law
that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal
plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other
monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when
once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used
against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it
does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons.
Rather, it may call upon them for help.
To prevent this, you would exclude
socialism from entering into the making of laws? You would
prevent socialists from entering the Legislative Palace? You
shall not succeed, I predict, so long as legal plunder continues
to be the main business of the legislature. It is
illogical—in fact, absurd—to assume otherwise.
Clark Simmons, Webmaster
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