The Anatomy Of The State by Murray N. Rothbard
The work argues that the state is not a neutral protector but a coercive institution sustained by organized plunder and the threat of violence; it exposes how appeals to the public good, social contract theory, and utilitarian justifications mask the state’s enforcement of privileges and taxation. It analyzes the mechanisms—laws, monopolies, propaganda, and coercive policing—that secure obedience and redistribute resources, contrasts state power with voluntary, private-order alternatives, and challenges the moral and practical legitimacy of political authority while advocating for minimizing or eliminating state coercion.
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- 1974
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