Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war.

Oui, l'anarchie c'est l'ordre; car, le gouvernement c'est la guerre civile.

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Bellegarrigue is often credited with first using the slogan "Anarchy is order, government is civil war" in 1848; it may have been derived from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's expression, in What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (1840): "As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy."

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