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IPFS News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism

Why Does Anarchy Make Everyone Fill Their Pants in Fear?

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"But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

"The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful."

Lysander Spooner

Don't hit and don't steal. Absent these two things, no government on Earth could exist for an hour much less centuries. Once the state has secured the means to threaten or initiate violence, this prerogative becomes the exclusive preserve of the monopolistic state. Political science is not about elegant ways for humanity to co-exist

an·ar·chy ?an?rk?/ noun noun: anarchy absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.


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