"The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime … and it makes this monopoly as strict as it can. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale."
The field of our science is human action, not the psychological events which result in an action. It is precisely this which distinguishes the general theory of human action, praxeology, from psychology.
From the Great Depression to the Cold War, to the War on Terror, the regime repeatedly seeks to keep its citizens in a state of fear. And there's one "enemy" that is always there for the state to save us from: "greed" and capitalism.
Desde las guerras interminables hasta el Estado administrativo, la institución moderna de la presidencia es el principal mal político al que se enfrentan los estadounidenses.
Do your neighbors do things that annoy you? Just give the government a call. They're ready and willing to assist with any effort that increases their power and influence, 24/7.
Raico stresses that there was another tradition within classical-liberal thought, one that recognized the interdependence between religion and liberty.
