Albert Jay Nock
The Criminality of the State
Albert Jay Nock: Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: you get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the [...]
The origin of the state
Albert Jay Nock’s great piece about how he learned about the concept called state and its true nature: “Anarchist Progress”. It was originally published in the American Mercury in 1928, and now it is also available online as an ebook “On Doing the Right Thing“.