The counterpart of this method is that philosophical anarchism which assembles all the evils that result from all forms of human grouping and attributes them en masse to the state, whose elimination would then bring in a millennium of voluntary fraternal organization.
Dewey critiques philosophical anarchism for oversimplifying the relationship between the state and social issues.
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The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.
It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.
The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.
There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.