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"A state is an organized political community, occupying a territory, and possessing internal and external sovereignty, that enforces a monopoly on the use of force. ..."
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Articles
Atlas Shrugged and the Corporate State, by Sheldon Richman, 12 Oct 2007
Explains how Ayn Ran's Atlas Shrugged properly depicted some businessmen as privilege seekers
"... liberty is threatened by business owners who seek privileges from the state in order to gain protection from open competition ... Those privileges ... encourage others to seek countervailing privileges. If businesses are protecting their market positions with protectionist licensing, taxes, regulations, subsidies, trade restrictions, patents, and the like, why shouldn't labor and other interest groups also seek protection?"
Explains how Ayn Ran's Atlas Shrugged properly depicted some businessmen as privilege seekers
"... liberty is threatened by business owners who seek privileges from the state in order to gain protection from open competition ... Those privileges ... encourage others to seek countervailing privileges. If businesses are protecting their market positions with protectionist licensing, taxes, regulations, subsidies, trade restrictions, patents, and the like, why shouldn't labor and other interest groups also seek protection?"
If the State Falls, Does Society Crumble?, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 25 Jan 2007
Related Topic: Iraq
"The state is the only entity that is permitted to maintain a legal monopoly on the use of aggressive force. It therefore operates according to its own law. If you steal or kill, you get in trouble. The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure, and there is no higher law to keep it in check."
Related Topic: Iraq
"The state is the only entity that is permitted to maintain a legal monopoly on the use of aggressive force. It therefore operates according to its own law. If you steal or kill, you get in trouble. The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure, and there is no higher law to keep it in check."
Impeach the American People!, by Butler Shaffer, 17 Nov 2006
Related Topic: Founding Fathers
"To most people, government may have been established by contract but, once created, the state became a free agent, able to extend its decision-making authority in any direction it chose ... The obligation of 'the people' to insist upon its rulers abiding by the terms of the 'agreement,' dissolved into the duty to be obedient to whatever state authorities mandated."
Related Topic: Founding Fathers
"To most people, government may have been established by contract but, once created, the state became a free agent, able to extend its decision-making authority in any direction it chose ... The obligation of 'the people' to insist upon its rulers abiding by the terms of the 'agreement,' dissolved into the duty to be obedient to whatever state authorities mandated."
The Anatomy of the State, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1974
Related Topics: U.S. Bill of Rights, Albert Jay Nock, Franz Oppenheimer, Property, War
Examines several attributes of the State, including how it maintains and grows itself and how it deals with other States
"Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion."
Related Topics: U.S. Bill of Rights, Albert Jay Nock, Franz Oppenheimer, Property, War
Examines several attributes of the State, including how it maintains and grows itself and how it deals with other States
"Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion."
The Control Cult, by Butler Shaffer, 21 Apr 2007
"Members of the control cult have always found themselves attracted to the agency whose raison d'etre is to subdue all of humanity to its coercive mechanisms of control: the state. What problem, or catastrophe, or even fear thereof, is not met with the aforesaid chant of bureaucrats: 'we will find out what went wrong and fix it, so it doesn't happen again'?"
"Members of the control cult have always found themselves attracted to the agency whose raison d'etre is to subdue all of humanity to its coercive mechanisms of control: the state. What problem, or catastrophe, or even fear thereof, is not met with the aforesaid chant of bureaucrats: 'we will find out what went wrong and fix it, so it doesn't happen again'?"
The Criminality of the State, by Albert Jay Nock, The American Mercury, 1939
"... the State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal."
"... the State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal."
The Ethics of Voting: Part Two [PDF], by George H. Smith, The Voluntaryist, Dec 1982
Related Topics: American Revolutionary War, Politicians
An analysis of the State as an institution ("method of pursuing a social activity")
"The State is a designed institution, forcibly imposed. State-builders had specific objectives in mind, foremost of which was to secure territorial sovereignty. ... Virtually all functions of government ... may be seen as supports for the monopolization of power. ... Sovereignty is the 'product' of this association (or the most fundamental among many); a monopoly on legitimized coercion is the 'process.'"
Related Topics: American Revolutionary War, Politicians
An analysis of the State as an institution ("method of pursuing a social activity")
"The State is a designed institution, forcibly imposed. State-builders had specific objectives in mind, foremost of which was to secure territorial sovereignty. ... Virtually all functions of government ... may be seen as supports for the monopolization of power. ... Sovereignty is the 'product' of this association (or the most fundamental among many); a monopoly on legitimized coercion is the 'process.'"
The Servile State Revisited, by Joseph Sobran, The Wanderer, 5 Jun 2003
Related Topics: Democracy, Military Industrial Complex
"The parasites know they depend on the State; but many of the productive people who create the wealth that supports the parasites are also convinced that their freedom depends on the State. The bureaucratic State has blurred the lines, disguising the opposition of interests. It rules by confusion."
Related Topics: Democracy, Military Industrial Complex
"The parasites know they depend on the State; but many of the productive people who create the wealth that supports the parasites are also convinced that their freedom depends on the State. The bureaucratic State has blurred the lines, disguising the opposition of interests. It rules by confusion."
The Six Faces of the Terrorist; The One Face of Bureaucracy, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 18 Aug 2006
"So it is with the security state. We give it power, we permit it to run itself with no oversight, we put up with its excesses, and we have a hard time imagining what life would be like without it. Well, it's time we start imagining, because the result of the security state will be more insecurity, more costs on the rest of us ..."
"So it is with the security state. We give it power, we permit it to run itself with no oversight, we put up with its excesses, and we have a hard time imagining what life would be like without it. Well, it's time we start imagining, because the result of the security state will be more insecurity, more costs on the rest of us ..."
Why I Am An Anarchist, by Caleb Johnson, The New Hampshire Free Press, 12 Mar 2008
Related Topic: War
Contrasts the general public view of anarchism with the reality of national governments and their actions
"... what distinguishes these forms of government from the state is that the state is not voluntary. The state is really a very specific type of government. It is an authoritarian model of government that enforces its rule over anyone that it considers to be within its jurisdiction, regardless of whether or not they have consented to its rule."
Related Topic: War
Contrasts the general public view of anarchism with the reality of national governments and their actions
"... what distinguishes these forms of government from the state is that the state is not voluntary. The state is really a very specific type of government. It is an authoritarian model of government that enforces its rule over anyone that it considers to be within its jurisdiction, regardless of whether or not they have consented to its rule."
Alternative Medicine Is Libertarian Medicine, by Butler Shaffer, 2 Dec 2006
Related Topics: Health Care, Life
"Like the headless chicken, the state is brain-dead. Its power derives from inertia (i.e., the unwillingness of a well-conditioned populace to consider alternative systems) rather than from intelligent conviction. There is nothing coming from within its halls that would engage the mind of any thoughtful human being."
Related Topics: Health Care, Life
"Like the headless chicken, the state is brain-dead. Its power derives from inertia (i.e., the unwillingness of a well-conditioned populace to consider alternative systems) rather than from intelligent conviction. There is nothing coming from within its halls that would engage the mind of any thoughtful human being."
Are the Salad Days for Somalia Over?, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 8 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Somalia
"... consider what a state does. First, it taxes, which means taking from the people and giving to the government, which then gives money to its friends. Second, it regulates ... Third, it creates a central bank to water down the value of money. Fourth, it builds jails to put people who disobey, including political enemies."
Related Topics: Somalia
"... consider what a state does. First, it taxes, which means taking from the people and giving to the government, which then gives money to its friends. Second, it regulates ... Third, it creates a central bank to water down the value of money. Fourth, it builds jails to put people who disobey, including political enemies."
Begrudging Another Battle of Ballot-Boxing, by Kenneth R. Gregg, 23 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Politics, Libertarian Party, Taxation, Voting
"It being discovered long ago that so long as the proportion of the populace which holds the state in favor increases, the fewer resources a state needs to use in order to keep the rest under control. That is, the greater legitimacy a state has, the less it needs to use violence against any single person or faction."
Related Topics: Politics, Libertarian Party, Taxation, Voting
"It being discovered long ago that so long as the proportion of the populace which holds the state in favor increases, the fewer resources a state needs to use in order to keep the rest under control. That is, the greater legitimacy a state has, the less it needs to use violence against any single person or faction."
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, Part 2, by Wendy McElroy, Future of Freedom, Sep 2007
Related Topics: Benjamin Tucker
Biographical essay on Benjamin Tucker from the first issue of Liberty until his death
"As a strategy, Tucker stressed psychological rather than physical disobedience; he urged people to withdraw the consent upon which the authority of the state rested. The concept of the state with its illusion of legitimacy was what commanded respect and obedience from people. He wrote, 'The state is a principle, a philosophical error in social existence.' Correcting the error required education in its many manifestations."
Related Topics: Benjamin Tucker
Biographical essay on Benjamin Tucker from the first issue of Liberty until his death
"As a strategy, Tucker stressed psychological rather than physical disobedience; he urged people to withdraw the consent upon which the authority of the state rested. The concept of the state with its illusion of legitimacy was what commanded respect and obedience from people. He wrote, 'The state is a principle, a philosophical error in social existence.' Correcting the error required education in its many manifestations."
Big Business and the Rise of American Statism, by Roy A. Childs, Jr., Reason, Feb 1971
Related Topics: Corporatism, Communications Technology, Monopoly
Originally a speech given at first convention of the Society for Individual Liberty, 15-16 Nov 1969
"A philosopher who preaches total state control of individual human actions and decisions, for instance, might profitably look at history for instances of what has happened as his ideal has been approached, approached as a limit case. If he finds destruction, chaos and the like, then the burden of explaining this within the confines of his assertions of the supposedly beneficial nature of state control comes into play."
Related Topics: Corporatism, Communications Technology, Monopoly
Originally a speech given at first convention of the Society for Individual Liberty, 15-16 Nov 1969
"A philosopher who preaches total state control of individual human actions and decisions, for instance, might profitably look at history for instances of what has happened as his ideal has been approached, approached as a limit case. If he finds destruction, chaos and the like, then the burden of explaining this within the confines of his assertions of the supposedly beneficial nature of state control comes into play."
Does the Market Commodify Everything?, by Thomas Woods, Mises.org Daily Article, 18 Sep 2006
Related Topics: Prices
"With the state ... the price is whatever the state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them. ... Precisely because it acts outside of the market, the state can devise arbitrary prices for its services, make those prices vary across different classes of people, and then threaten physical force against anyone refusing to pay them."
Related Topics: Prices
"With the state ... the price is whatever the state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them. ... Precisely because it acts outside of the market, the state can devise arbitrary prices for its services, make those prices vary across different classes of people, and then threaten physical force against anyone refusing to pay them."
Libertarians of Will, Intellect, and Action, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1977
Related Topics: Libertarianism, American Revolutionary War, United States Declaration of Independence, Libertarian Party, Thomas Paine
Keynote address to the Libertarian Party Convention
"In fact, it is the state that is robbing all classes, rich and poor, black and white, worker and businessman alike; it is the state that is ripping us all off; it is the state that is the common enemy of mankind. And who is the state? It is any group who manages to seize control of the state's coercive machinery of theft and privilege."
Related Topics: Libertarianism, American Revolutionary War, United States Declaration of Independence, Libertarian Party, Thomas Paine
Keynote address to the Libertarian Party Convention
"In fact, it is the state that is robbing all classes, rich and poor, black and white, worker and businessman alike; it is the state that is ripping us all off; it is the state that is the common enemy of mankind. And who is the state? It is any group who manages to seize control of the state's coercive machinery of theft and privilege."
Political Power and the Rule of Law, by Ron Paul, Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk, 5 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Politics, Rule of Law
"Remember that one's relationship with the state is never voluntary. Every government edict, policy, regulation, court decision, and law ultimately is backed up by force, in the form of police, guns, and jails. That is why political power must be fiercely constrained by the American people."
Related Topics: Politics, Rule of Law
"Remember that one's relationship with the state is never voluntary. Every government edict, policy, regulation, court decision, and law ultimately is backed up by force, in the form of police, guns, and jails. That is why political power must be fiercely constrained by the American people."
Preventing Opposition to War, by Sheldon Richman, 13 Apr 2007
Related Topics: War
"... in its primary role the welfare-warfare state is a grand scheme to enable a ruling class, through its complex bureaucracy and ideological smokescreens, to transfer wealth from the industrious classes to itself. This system deceives and compels the taxpaying producers to support a tax-consuming aristocracy, which includes the bureaucracy and corporations that exist on government contracts."
Related Topics: War
"... in its primary role the welfare-warfare state is a grand scheme to enable a ruling class, through its complex bureaucracy and ideological smokescreens, to transfer wealth from the industrious classes to itself. This system deceives and compels the taxpaying producers to support a tax-consuming aristocracy, which includes the bureaucracy and corporations that exist on government contracts."
Ron Paul and the Empire, by Steven LaTulippe, 31 Jul 2007
Related Topics: Ron Paul
Describes steps the establishment could take to prevent Ron Paul from becoming President
"America is actually a carefully concealed oligarchy. A few thousand people, mostly in government, finance, and the military-industrial complex, run this country for their own purposes. By manipulating the two-party system, influencing the mainstream media, and controlling the flow of campaign finance money, this oligarchy works to secure the nomination of its preferred candidates ..."
Related Topics: Ron Paul
Describes steps the establishment could take to prevent Ron Paul from becoming President
"America is actually a carefully concealed oligarchy. A few thousand people, mostly in government, finance, and the military-industrial complex, run this country for their own purposes. By manipulating the two-party system, influencing the mainstream media, and controlling the flow of campaign finance money, this oligarchy works to secure the nomination of its preferred candidates ..."
Society without a State, by Murray N. Rothbard, 28 Dec 1974
Related Topics: Anarchism, Law, Taxation
Talk delivered at the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
"... I define the state as that institution which possesses one or both (almost always both) of the following properties: (1) it acquires its income by the physical coercion known as 'taxation'; and (2) it asserts and usually obtains a coerced monopoly of the provision of defense service (police and courts) over a given territorial area. An institution not possessing either of these properties is not and cannot be, in accordance with my definition, a state."
Related Topics: Anarchism, Law, Taxation
Talk delivered at the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
"... I define the state as that institution which possesses one or both (almost always both) of the following properties: (1) it acquires its income by the physical coercion known as 'taxation'; and (2) it asserts and usually obtains a coerced monopoly of the provision of defense service (police and courts) over a given territorial area. An institution not possessing either of these properties is not and cannot be, in accordance with my definition, a state."
The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Libertarian Forum, 1 Jan 1970
Related Topics: Communism, Achievement, Economists, Private Property, Spain
"... anarcho-communists oppose the State ... because they wrongly believe that it is the creator and protector of private property, and therefore that the only route toward abolition of property is by destruction of the State apparatus. They totally fail to realize that the State has always been the great enemy and invader of the rights of private property."
Related Topics: Communism, Achievement, Economists, Private Property, Spain
"... anarcho-communists oppose the State ... because they wrongly believe that it is the creator and protector of private property, and therefore that the only route toward abolition of property is by destruction of the State apparatus. They totally fail to realize that the State has always been the great enemy and invader of the rights of private property."
The Ethics of Voting: Part I [PDF], by George H. Smith, The Voluntaryist, Oct 1982
Related Topics: Voting, Voluntaryism
Examines libertarian and anarchist theory to provide a critique of electoral voting, i.e., voting for government officials
"The anarchist ... avers that institutional features of the State, such as the claim of sovereign jurisdiction over a given geographical area, render the State invasive per se. This invasive trait persists regardless of who occupies positions of power in the State or what their individual purposes may be."
Related Topics: Voting, Voluntaryism
Examines libertarian and anarchist theory to provide a critique of electoral voting, i.e., voting for government officials
"The anarchist ... avers that institutional features of the State, such as the claim of sovereign jurisdiction over a given geographical area, render the State invasive per se. This invasive trait persists regardless of who occupies positions of power in the State or what their individual purposes may be."
The Idea of a Private Law Society, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Mises.org Daily Article, 28 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Private Property, Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Democracy, Government, Law, Taxation
"... the state is an agency that exercises a territorial monopoly of ultimate decision-making. ... it is the ultimate arbiter in every case of conflict, including conflicts involving itself, and it allows no appeal above and beyond itself. Furthermore ... it is an agency that unilaterally fixes the price private citizens must pay for its provision of law and order."
Related Topics: Private Property, Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Democracy, Government, Law, Taxation
"... the state is an agency that exercises a territorial monopoly of ultimate decision-making. ... it is the ultimate arbiter in every case of conflict, including conflicts involving itself, and it allows no appeal above and beyond itself. Furthermore ... it is an agency that unilaterally fixes the price private citizens must pay for its provision of law and order."
The War the Government Cannot Win, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 1 May 2007
Related Topics: Terrorism, Iraq, Iraq War (2003), Socialism, United States
Discusses how government cannnot win the war on terror because economic law is more powerful than the state
"We all need to begin to say no to the state on an intellectual level. When you are asked what you would like the government to do for you, we need to be prepared to reply: nothing. We should not ask it to save our children, nor provide security, nor vanquish all evil, nor give us anything at all. ... Nothing the government does takes place without a greater cost than benefit to society."
Related Topics: Terrorism, Iraq, Iraq War (2003), Socialism, United States
Discusses how government cannnot win the war on terror because economic law is more powerful than the state
"We all need to begin to say no to the state on an intellectual level. When you are asked what you would like the government to do for you, we need to be prepared to reply: nothing. We should not ask it to save our children, nor provide security, nor vanquish all evil, nor give us anything at all. ... Nothing the government does takes place without a greater cost than benefit to society."
Thinking about Foreign Policy, by Sheldon Richman, Future of Freedom, Dec 2006
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Taxation
"The people do not make foreign policy. The state does; or, more precisely, the ruling elite, which includes influential corporate interests outside the formal organization of the state, makes foreign policy. ... In foreign matters the state has the greatest leeway and privacy to do what it wants."
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Taxation
"The people do not make foreign policy. The state does; or, more precisely, the ruling elite, which includes influential corporate interests outside the formal organization of the state, makes foreign policy. ... In foreign matters the state has the greatest leeway and privacy to do what it wants."
Why Limited Representative Government Fails, by Michael S. Rozeff, 17 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Government, Limited Government, Voting
Presents a four-element theory of why limited representative government fails
"I regard government (including limited representative government) as an ersatz self-government. It is a substitute and a makeshift, a counterfeit like its fiat money. ... The success of the State owes to many factors, one of which is the State's ability to imitate self-government. Even to distinguish government from self-government and present them as opposites in their essentials is made difficult because of the trappings of self-government that the State employs."
Related Topics: Government, Limited Government, Voting
Presents a four-element theory of why limited representative government fails
"I regard government (including limited representative government) as an ersatz self-government. It is a substitute and a makeshift, a counterfeit like its fiat money. ... The success of the State owes to many factors, one of which is the State's ability to imitate self-government. Even to distinguish government from self-government and present them as opposites in their essentials is made difficult because of the trappings of self-government that the State employs."
Why the Republicans Are Doomed, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 21 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Republican Party, Liberty
"... the law these days is not the law written on our hearts but rather the rules as laid down by state masters. But this seemingly important point is completely lost on the Republican mind, since they believe that without the state as lawmaker, all of society and all of the world would collapse into a muddle of chaos and darkness."
Related Topics: Republican Party, Liberty
"... the law these days is not the law written on our hearts but rather the rules as laid down by state masters. But this seemingly important point is completely lost on the Republican mind, since they believe that without the state as lawmaker, all of society and all of the world would collapse into a muddle of chaos and darkness."
Without the State, No Troops to Support, by Jeremy Weiland, 6 Mar 2007
Related Topics: War
"The reality is that people are wrongly dying because of the State, people have always wrongly died to preserve the State, and they will continue to die until we, the people, start saying 'no'. We cannot count on establishment types to say 'no'; until people are finally unwilling to believe in fairy tales, storytellers are easily replaced."
Related Topics: War
"The reality is that people are wrongly dying because of the State, people have always wrongly died to preserve the State, and they will continue to die until we, the people, start saying 'no'. We cannot count on establishment types to say 'no'; until people are finally unwilling to believe in fairy tales, storytellers are easily replaced."
Poetry
A Viper Lived in Johnny's House, or A Child's First Verse in Political Philosophy, by Robert Higgs, 9 Oct 2006
"'Listen, boy, it's not wise to wonder.
From the earliest days of mankind,
everyone's had a viper or another
sort of snake: people say they're divine.'
...
At home, they surrendered a great deal
of their food for the snake to consume."
"'Listen, boy, it's not wise to wonder.
From the earliest days of mankind,
everyone's had a viper or another
sort of snake: people say they're divine.'
...
At home, they surrendered a great deal
of their food for the snake to consume."
Books
Anarchy, State and Utopia
by Robert Nozick, 1974
Related Topic: Anarchism
1975 National Book Award
by Robert Nozick, 1974
Related Topic: Anarchism
1975 National Book Award
- ISBN 0465002706
: Paperback, Basic Books, 1974
- ISBN 0465051006
: Paperback, Basic Books, Revised edition, 2007
- ISBN 0465097200
: Paperback, Basic Books, 1977
- ISBN 063119780X
: Paperback, Blackwell Publishing, New edition, 2001
Bargaining With the State
by Richard A. Epstein, 1993
by Richard A. Epstein, 1993
- ISBN 069104273X
: Hardcover, Princeton University Press, 1993
- ISBN 0691001553
: Paperback, Princeton University Press, New edition, 1995
Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
by James Bovard, 1999
by James Bovard, 1999
- ISBN 0312214413
: Hardcover, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition, 1999
- ISBN 0312229674
: Paperback, St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
by Ludwig von Mises, 1940
Excerpt from Nationalökonomie
by Ludwig von Mises, 1940
Excerpt from Nationalökonomie
- ISBN 1572460717
: Paperback, Foundation for Econ Education, 1998
Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children
by David Harsanyi, 2007
by David Harsanyi, 2007
- ISBN 0767924320
: Hardcover, Broadway, 2007
Our Enemy, the State, by Albert Jay Nock, 1935
Electronic text available at "Barefoot's World"
Electronic text available at "Barefoot's World"
- ISBN 0786100877
: Audio cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997
- ISBN 0405004311
: Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub, 1972
- ISBN 0930073118
: Hardcover, Fox & Wilkes, 1994
- ISBN 0873190238
: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, Reprint edition, 1983
- ISBN 0873190513
: Paperback, Hallberg Pub Corp, Expanded edition, 2001
Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State
by Sheldon Richman, Ron Paul (Foreword), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 2001
by Sheldon Richman, Ron Paul (Foreword), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 2001
- ISBN 1890687014
: Hardcover, Future of Freedom Foundation, 2001
- ISBN 1890687022
: Paperback, Future of Freedom Foundation, 2001
The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically, by Franz Oppenheimer, 1908
Electronic text available, in English, at the German "Franz Oppenheimer Homepage"
Electronic text available, in English, at the German "Franz Oppenheimer Homepage"
- ISBN 0405004338
: Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub, Reprint edition, 1972
- ISBN 1560009659
: Paperback, Transaction Publishers, 1999
The State Against Blacks
by Walter E. Williams, 1982
by Walter E. Williams, 1982
- ISBN 0070703787
: Hardcover, McGraw-Hill, 1982
- ISBN 0070703795
: Paperback, McGraw-Hill, 1984
Videos
Military Times: Obama--contractors in security-force, by Barack Obama
Senator Obama interviewed by editorial board of the Military Times newspapers, discussing the use of private military contractors like Blackwater
"... I think you're privatizing something that is, what essentially sets a nation-state apart, which is the monopoly on violence ..."
The Sunset of the State, by Stefan Molyneux, 4 Aug 2010
Related Topics: Non-aggression Principle
"Our statist system has become so ridiculously complicated because it has ... a fundamental error right down at the root of it ... the belief that violence is the best way to solve complex social problems; the delusion that if you point enough guns at enough people, run up enough debt ..., kidnap and enslave enough free souls, that the world will just get better and better and better."
Podcasts
The Scam Called the State, by Hans-Herman Hoppe, The Lew Rockwell Show, 30 Jul 2008
Lew asks Hans-Hermann Hoppe to explain why we allow the State to exist and whether there is any hope in opposing it
Lew asks Hans-Hermann Hoppe to explain why we allow the State to exist and whether there is any hope in opposing it