Murray Rothbard often described the government as a ‘gang of thieves writ large.’
His description captures the State’s true essence… coercion.
Any government, anywhere in the world, and at any time in history is simply a group of people with a monopoly on coercion in a certain geographic area. That’s it.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, or something else.
Government is not about selfless public servants advancing some vague common good. It’s about brute force.
They don’t teach this in public schools. But it’s true.
This post was published at International Man
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