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1 Question-3 - Read the passage and answers the following questions: 1. In the popular mind, an Anarchist is a person who throws bombs and commits other (7) outrages either because he is more or less insane, or because he uses the pretense of extreme political opinions as a clock for criminal proclivities. This view is, of course in every way inadequate. Some anarchists believe in throwing bombs, many do not. Men of almost every other shade of opinion believe in throwing bombs in suitable circumstances For example, the men who threw the bomb at Sarajevo which started the present war were not anarchists, but nationalists. And those anarchists who are in favor of bomb-throwing do not in this respect differ on any vital principle from the rest of the community with the exception of that infinitesimal portion who adopt the Tolstoyan attitude of non resistance. 2. Anarchists, like socialists, usually believe in the doctrine of the class war, and if they use bombs, it is as governments use bombs, for purposes of war: but for every bomb manufactured by an Anarchist many millions are manufactured by governments, and for every man killed by anarchist violence, many millions are killed by the violence of states. We may, therefore, dismiss from our minds the whole question of violence , which plays so large a part in the popular imagination, since it is neither essential nor peculiar to those who adopt the anarchist position. It is a vicious circle. 3. Anarchism as its derivation indicates , is the theory which is opposed to every kind of forcible government. It is opposed to the state as the embodiment of the force employed in the government of the community. Such government as Anarchism can tolerate must be free government not merely in the sense that it is that of a majority ,but in the sense that it is that assented to by all. Anarchists object to such institutions as the police and the criminal law, by means of which the will of one part of the community is forced upon another part. In their view, the democratic form of government is not very enormously preferable to other forms so long as minorities are compelled by force or its potentially to submit to the will of majorities. Liberty is the supreme good in the anarchist creed, and liberty is sought by the direct road of abolishing all forcible control over the individual by the community. (I) Questions: a. What similarity does the author present between anarchists and socialists? c. Which vicious circle does the author refer to in paragraph no. 1? d. How is liberty sought by anarchists? (II) Find out words from the passage that mean the same as under: a. approached b. self-deception c. release Question-4​

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