Published Thursday, December 28, 2006 by Murray N. Rothbard
The power of the state is its legitimacy in the eyes of the majority of the public, writes Murray Rothbard. After centuries of propaganda, the pervasive depredations of the state are looked upon rather as benevolent services. And yet the idea that the state is needed to make law is as much a myth as that the state is needed to supply postal or police services. Nor does pure liberty assume that men are angels. Given the "nature of man," given the degree of goodness or badness at any point in time, anarchism will maximize the opportunities for the good and minimize the channels for the bad.
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Society without a State (7.57 MB)