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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Quote of the Day: The ISIS as evidence to theories of the state’s origins

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How does ISIS spend the money it collects? This too sheds light on how a state embeds itself with a population and creates its own particu...

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Is Anarchism Utopian?

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Depends on the definition, if anarchism is defined from the etymology of anarchy or chaos, then it is not even utopian but dystopian. Let...

Friday, January 11, 2013

Quote of the Day: The State Owes its Existence to Civilization

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Primitive (“tribal”) societies are primitive not because they don’t have states, but because they don’t have a developed tradition of priv...

Monday, November 12, 2012

Essay of the Day: Tom Palmer: The Origins of State and Government

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A profound essay on the origins of the state and government from Cato’s Tom G. Palmer Some excerpts: People’s savings as the fou...

Monday, January 16, 2012

Quote of the Day: Origin of the State

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive, State known to ...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Archeological Findings: The Origin of the State: War

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Sociologist Franz Oppenheimer theorized that the state was born out of war. From Mr. Oppenheimer The State, completely in its genesis...

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