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Citat:
"Social power is man’s power over nature, his cooperative transformation of nature’s resources and insight into nature’s laws, for the benefit of all participating individuals. Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production, a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive (actually antiproductive) rulers.
While social power is over nature, State power is power over man. Through history, man’s productive and creative forces have, time and again, carved out new ways of transforming nature for man’s benefit. These have been the times when social power has spurted ahead of State power, and when the degree of State encroachment over society has considerably lessened. But always, after a greater or smaller time lag, the State has moved into these new areas, to cripple and confiscate social power once more.
If the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries were, in many countries of the West, times of accelerating social power, and a corollary increase in freedom, peace, and material welfare, the twentieth century has been primarily an age in which State power has been catching up, with a consequent reversion to slavery, war, and destruction.
- Murray N. Rothbard, The Anatomy of the State"
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Liberaler känner inget annat än avsky inför Staten som företeelse när man får dess agerande och sätt att fungera beskrivet för sig på det här viset.
Staten är en krigsmaskin med ytterst tveksam moral.