Ken: ‘Fable for the Future’

Short tale published in The Green Anarchist in 1985. In a future anarchist community a visitor is spurned for his authoritarianism. The tale is Morris-derivative and very naive – government had been weakened by proportional representation, allowing in five anarchist MPs!

Damon Knight: ‘Rule Golden’ (1954)

An envoy from the galactic community converts Earth to nonviolence by means of a chemical agent that causes pain to be felt by the perpetrator as much as by the victim of a violent act. Since ‘all governments were based on violence, as currency was based on metal,’ all the world’s governments in due course collapse.