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War is the outcome of class conflict inherent in the political relationship — the relationship between ruler and ruled, parasite and producer, tax-consumer and taxpayer.

In fact, all great states in the 20th century have been killer states, to a greater or lesser degree.

A state without money or a state that must tax its citizens to raise money for its wars is necessarily limited in its imperial ambitions. Keep in mind that this is only a problem for the state.

If we could abolish public schools and compulsory schooling laws, we would have better schools at half the price—and be freer too.

While capitalism gives rise to prosperity and freedom, the state thrives on an economically ignorant public.

How a person uses the right to associate (and to not associate) is a matter of individual choice profoundly influenced by the cultural context.

Lew Rockwell discusses Friedman at the dedication of the Mises Institute library.

If one does not stop in time the pernicious policy of increasing the quantity of money and fiduciary media, the nation's currency system collapses entirely.

"Caius Gracchus" Babeuf came to Paris in 1790 and imbibed the revolutionary atmosphere. Five years later, he founded the secret Conspiracy of the Equals.

Few ideas are as closely associated with Marxism, writes Ralph Raico, as the concepts of class and class conflict. But the concept itself, with a more realistic understanding, originates in liberal theory.