16 November 2024

Emphasize.


The State is an inherently illegitimate institution of organized aggression, of organized and regularized crime against the persons and properties of its subjects a profoundly antisocial institution which lives parasitically off of the productive activities of private citizens. Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist. We must, therefore, emphasize that "we" are not the government; the government is not "us." The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people.

Murray Rothbard, from America's Great Depression

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