Herbert Read Quotes
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
Read, Herbert. The Philosophy of Anarchism. Freedom Press, 1940.
“Combination” was then a word for a large corporate enterprise, monopoly or trust. Although large corporations are common in the modern economy, at the time there were very few of them and most of them use their power to crush competition and take advantage of helpless consumer. Instead of banning largeness as some wanted to do, President Theodore Roosevelt and others chose regulation, and the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act were passed. Individualism in the form of small businesses have proved amazingly resilient and have developed into a giants like Microsoft and a Google. Over half a of the new jobs created in our economy are done so by small businesses.
Friedman was commenting in particular about Egypt and other Arab societies.
The Manual was found by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaida member's home
America followed the English example of forming associations (corporation and non-profit organizations) for everything from science to orphanages, libraries to agricultural organizations. But America went much further than England in the number, scale and scope. De Tocqueville was most amazed and impressed by this.
Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung.
