Without the erroneous public perception and judgment of the state as just and necessary and without the public’s voluntary cooperation, even the seemingly most powerful government would implode and its powers evaporate. Thus liberated, we would regain our right to self-defense and be able to turn to freed and unregulated insurance agencies for efficient professional assistance in all matters of protection and conflict resolution. —Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Production of Defense
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Our Enemy the State
Democrat- Socialism: The One Thing “to which we all belong” or Else!
I picked up Albert Jay Nock’s Our Enemy, the State (again). What a great read. Every page is loaded with things to consider. Challenges to the political orthodoxy of any day. With moments of brilliance that define not just the State but our relationship to it.
Notable Quote: Albert Jay Nock
Let us suppose that instead of being slow, extravagant, inefficient, wasteful, unadaptive, stupid, and at least by tendency corrupt, the State changes its character entirely and becomes infinitely wise, good, disinterested, efficient, so that anyone may run to it with any little two-penny problem and have it solved for him at once in the wisest … Read more