Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)
Anatomy of the State
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The State is almost universally considered an institution of social service. Some theorists venerate the State as the apotheosis of society; others regard it as an amiable, though often inefficient, organization for achieving social ends; but almost all regard it as...
Anatomy of the State: What the State Is Not
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Man is born naked into the world, and needing to use his mind to learn how to take the resources given him by nature, and to transform them (for example, by investment in "capital") into shapes and forms and places where the resources can be used for the satisfaction...
Anatomy of the State: What the State Is
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What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence. The death of a State can come about in two major ways: (a) through conquest by another State, or (b) through revolutionary overthrow by its own subjects—in...
Anatomy of the State: What the State Fears
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As Bertrand de Jouvenel has sagely pointed out, through the centuries men have formed concepts designed to check and limit the exercise of State rule; and, one after another, the State, using its intellectual allies, has been able to transform these concepts into...
Anatomy of the State: How the State Transcends Its Limits
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Once a State has been established, the problem of the ruling group or "caste" is how to maintain their rule.7 While force is their modus operandi, their basic and long-run problem is ideological. For in order to continue in office, any government (not simply a...
Anatomy of the State: How the State Preserves Itself
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Since the territorial area of the earth is divided among different States, inter-State relations must occupy much of a State's time and energy. The natural tendency of a State is to expand its power, and externally such expansion takes place by conquest of a territorial
Anatomy of the State: How States Relate to One Another
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Just as the two basic and mutually exclusive interrelations between men are peaceful cooperation or coercive exploitation, production or predation, so the history of mankind, particularly its economic history, may be considered as a contest between these two principles.
Anatomy of the State: History as a Race Between State Power and Social Power