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Updated: May 15, 2025
The State, the police, or their means of existence, the tax, is, I repeat, the official name of the class designated in political economy as nonproducers, in short, as the domestics of society. But public reason does not attain at a single bound this simple idea, which for centuries had to remain in the state of a transcendental conception.
Finally, that the army, the courts, the police, the schools, the hospitals, the almshouses, the houses of refuge and correction, public functions, religion itself, all that society creates for the protection, emancipation, and relief of the proletaire, paid for in the first place and sustained by the proletaire, is then turned against the proletaire or wasted as far as he is concerned; so that the proletariat, which at first labored only for the class that devours it, that of the capitalists, must labor also for the class that flogs it, that of the nonproducers.
Yes, an absurd supposition, but a very real supposition, and one which you must admit precisely because it is absurd. In France a standing army of five hundred thousand men, forty thousand priests, twenty thousand doctors, eighty thousand lawyers, and I know not how many hundred thousand other nonproducers of every sort, constitute an immense market for our agriculture and our manufactures.
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