The State Is Always and Forever the Enemy of the People
“In this century, the human race faces, once again, the virulent reign of the State—of the State now armed with the fruits of man’s creative powers, confiscated and perverted to its own aims. The last few centuries were times when men tried to place constitutional and other limits on the State, only to find that such limits, as with all other attempts, have failed. Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever. Perhaps new paths of inquiry must be explored, if the successful, final solution of the State question is ever to be attained.”
~ Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State
What paths of inquiry should not only be explored, but presumably put into action in order to be free? What is the final solution of the State question? I can think of only one viable answer that could resolve the problem that is the State, any State, and that is anarchy, or for the squeamish and linguistically challenged among you, voluntaryism without a state. In other words, abolish the State. Yes, I do understand that the first response, and incorrect one as well, to this answer is usually that anarchy is impossible and will not work, because chaos, riots, looting, lawlessness, and murder would reign, so there has to be a State to keep that from happening. This attitude is ridiculous on its face. What we have here is a failure to communicate, as today, the people live in times of extreme chaos, riots, looting, lawlessness, surveillance, economic destruction, mass inflation, lockdowns, poisonous injections, total police corruption and brutality, famine, war, murder, and instant death. How much worse could it be without a State?
While uncomfortable for statists and nationalists, I can certainly expand on this thinking, but only to a point, as the list of State atrocities is endless, and has been throughout the entirety of human existence. Recent adverse events alone are staggering in number and have ca
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