The Criminality of the State

January 1, 2007 at 9:01 · Filed under blog, society

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 equivalent power to do things to you. A citizenry which has learned that one short lesson has but little more left to learn.

Read the essay from here.

Another great essay from Nock: Life, Liberty, and … which can be found from the introduction to his book Our Enemy, the State.

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The origin of the state

November 7, 2006 at 3:07 · Filed under blog, personal, society

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“.

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