There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the clergyman.
love = anarchy
The State: Institutionalized Terrorism
… Today, though, since “colonialism” and “imperialism” are terms employed by statesmen only in a negative treatment, their substance is packaged in new, more innocuous language. Thus has globalization taken the place of colonization.
Because global economic interconnectedness has so successfully been wrapped in the phraseology of free enterprise, it’s easy to overlook how completely it relies on coercive state intervention. Indeed, the corporate economic model that now obtains throughout the world is completely dependent upon and inextricable from robust military imperialism. …
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[The] institution of the home is the one anarchist institution. … [I]t is older than law, and stands outside the State.
Black Flag Pesticide. Walt Crowley in Helix (1969)
- Rothbard: My conversion to anarchism was a simple exercise in logic. I had engaged continually in friendly arguments about laissez-faire with liberal friends from graduate school. While condemning taxation, I had still felt that taxation was required for the provision of police and judicial protection and for that only. One night two friends and I had one of our usual lengthy discussions, seemingly unprofitable; but this time when they’d left, I felt that for once something vital had actually been said. As I thought back on the discussion, I realized that my friends, as liberals, had posed the following challenge to my laissez-faire position:
- They: What is the legitimate basis for your laissez-faire government, for this political entity confined solely to defending person and property?
- Rothbard: Well, the people get together and decide to establish such a government.
- They: But if “the people” can do that, why can’t they do exactly the same thing and get together to choose a government that will build steel plants, dams, etc.?
- Rothbard: I realized in a flash that their logic was impeccable, that laissez-faire was logically untenable, and that either I had to become a liberal, or move onward into anarchism. I became an anarchist.
Why doesn’t anyone protest the gowns of the State’s judges? Why can’t they wear business suits like normal people? Are they priests? Is the State a religion?
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Since they parted from religion, the nonreligious have had a feeling of emptiness and are provisionally trying to create a substitute, a kind of fulfillment, through devotion to the state.
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