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Proudhon goes on to suggest that the real laws by which society functions have nothing to do with authority; they are not imposed from above, but stem from the nature of society itself. He sees the free emergence of such laws as the goal of social endeavour.

— George Woodcock Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962)

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