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Rectification of Injustice

Since aggression would be dealt with by forcing the aggressor to repay his victim for the damage caused (whenever the use of force was required), rather than by destroying values belonging to the aggressor, the free market would evolve a reparations-payment system vastly superior to and different from the present governmental prisons.

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Warring Defense Agencies and Organized Crime

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Legislation and Objective Law

It has been objected by advocates of government that a laissez-faire society, since it would have no legislative mechanism, would lack the objective laws necessary to maintain social order and justice. This is to assume that objective law is the product of the deliberations of some legislative body, and this assumption, in turn, springs from a confusion about the meaning and nature of law.

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Foreign Aggression

Many people ask, “But how in the world could a laissez-faire society deal with aggression by foreign nations, since it would have no government to protect it?” Behind this question are two unrealized assumptions: first, that government is some sort of extra-societal entity with resources of its own—resources which can only be tapped for defense by the action of government—and, second, that government does, in fact, defend its citizens.

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The Abolition of War

PART III

HOW DO WE GET THERE?

“If the revolution comes by violence, and in advance of light, the old struggle will have to be begun again.”—Benjamin R. Tucker

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From Government to Laissez Faire

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The Force Which Shapes The World

by Frank Chodorov

Introduction by J. Bracken Lee
Governor of Utah

The Devin-Adair Company

New York, 1954

Online edition © 2002 The Ludwig von Mises Institute.