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Anatomy of the state - 2. What the state is

  • Man has found that, through the process of voluntary, mutual exchange, the productivity and hence, the living standards of all participants in exchange may increase enormously.
    • The only “natural” course for man to survive and to attain wealth, therefore, is by using his mind and energy to engage in the production-and-exchange process.
    • The social path dictated by the requirements of man’s nature, therefore, is the path of “property rights” and the “free market” of gift or exchange of such rights.
  • According to Franz Oppenheimer, there are two mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth
    • Economic means: production and exchange
    • Political means: seizure of another's goods or services by the use of force and violence.
    • It siphons production off to a parasitic and destructive individual or group; and this siphoning not only subtracts from the number producing, but also lowers the producer’s incentive to produce beyond his own subsistence.
    • In the long run, the robber destroys his own subsistence by dwindling or eliminating the source of his own supply.
  • The state is the organization of the political means
    • The systematization of the predatory process over a given territory
  • The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property.
    • The State has never been created by a “social contract”; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation.
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