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Albert Einstein — Part 1

92 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Albert Einstein · 91 pages OCR'd
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—-—“*yt nothing in ¢ a paragraph @hall be takc 4 an -—- exeinsivo definition of advising, advocacy, \ 20 aa Gr affiliation” (Soc.2, Soc.137,Titlo 8,U.5.C.) _ “_"BINSTEDi's “OM DOCTRIVES ANARCHISTIC —— - ~ ‘Rot only is Albort Einstoin affiliated with, or a nonber of “tho rowolutionary onarchoec 8 ups proviously nancd---_.. and thoroby affilintod with their af: 4lintos,(including tho Communist Intornatiwmal and various Anarchist Groups) ns - ocided in tho Kjar onso, but his own porsonnal activitios, in ‘oninent san" Is always “will to holp® thoso 4. hich he, as on Lot 4 . .Fovolutionary radicals poro than thoy ean holp thonsolvos 7 . ata thoir_owm_ or, zations {as proviaus om} would =" A yast: ‘and roquiro hie oxclusion, evon if ho woro not_in me : filiation with any group of inadnissfbio alions, ~~” fo: . — --- What 2s tho dogal Acfinttion of “anarchists” in subdivision T: ——~{n)-of tho Alien Zxelusion anf Doportation Low? Congross has > pot said. It has loft the dofinition of "anarchists" open to every reasonable and fair definition of that torn, but positively prohibited the ontry into tho Unitod Btatos of any alien who is an “anarchist,” In tho Act of Fobruary 5,1917,(806.5) Congroas nleo first + nonea “anarchists” an? then in tho alternxtivo, not conjunctivo, *or persons who boliove in or advocnto tho overthrow by forse and vYoleneo of tho Govornnont...or who disboliove in or arc 2p osod to organized poverntcnt...or who aro nonbors of or x Piliates with any organization ontortainine ani toaching ~~ Aisbolfor in or opposition 4 to_organtgod governnent. : "Mo Aietdonarics dofino “anarchy” as "0 bsonco or uttcr Aisregard of govornnont; lawloss confusion and aisorders *~—— opposition to tho rulo of a suprono powor,” otc. Tho fundanental prinsiplo of all organizod govornacnt~--theo rone Court hold it "to bo an incontrovortible principlo"=-< powor “to conpol . sical force" oxorcisod Bae. TET | cae ME Caen owe we ee ar ‘? 3 without which it cannot oxist, Is obodionces to 4ts taws"-"by noans of phy. through ite official agonte. (800 Ro Debs,158 U.8.579,582) What tho anarchist opposes ant attonpts to abolish, thoro- z foro, is not norcly tho nano, "govorniont," but tho thing which is govornnont, the authority and powor to compel obodionco to if - law which is tno first essontial of all organizod govornnont--- A tho powor to govorn. Whothor ho strikos at "tho rulo of a c suprono power” by assassination of a single sovoroign, or whothor ho norcly bolicves in depriving evory sovoroign of tho powor to overn, ho is oqually an anarchist--~and oqually, if an alicn, ~ subdject. to exclusion fron tho United States. . Rothing 1s nore ecrtain than that ALBERT EINSTEIN is at tho . head and front of 2 personal novencnt (tho Einetoin Wor ~~ . istors Intornitional Fupd) os well as affilinted with on Intornatfonal) «2... t~commnist group (The War Rosistors ng ror his dercce-cuject tho presot fan oF oma) ; br eonet!: a “ 8 g Tt z 3 * s y F nag, an low by yolitt eek tfons, fowl 3 od 2 os in’ law eal: mat £0; oi tIomal athor! A parliquc: 7 COVON sf be eTST ety tuar tet stance toni organized 52 ss instead, anarchistic govornients that oxist today,that, to prosorve thoir oxistoneo, require noans of national dofonse. coe Nothing 4a nore cortain in law than tho principlo that a sane porson “is prosmod to intcnd tho nccossary eonecquences of his own acta.” : Tho courts havo frequontly nohod that tho nosossary conso- quonco of pornitting succcssful “individual rosiatanco" to law is to pronote anarchy and "uttor confusion.* $2 Thus, throo-quarters of a contury ago, tho United States Supreno Court held that "governicnt could exist only in nano® . 4f tho professod doctrines of nn inddyidual, eontrary to et "a law of the organization of soeicty" wore hold "superior to the lawa of the land" and would Sin osfook pornit evory . — eitizon to beeono a law unto hinself."” (Soo Roynolds v } : Unitod States, 68°0.8,145). Tint, of eourao, would bo anarchy s | Yet what 4s tho substance of Einstcin's appoal to “war © Tosistors" but an appoal to individuals to rcgist ond disobey "to boconc a’ law unto hinsolf* the law of govornncnta, for oach
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