Murray Newton Rothbard

Name: Anatomy of the State — What the State Is
Author: Murray Newton Rothbard

Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

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“Anatomy of the State — What the State Is”, published in 1974, is a work by Murray Newton Rothbard. It explores elements such as exchange, resources and political means.

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ The only way by which man can do this is by the use of his mind and energy to transform resources ("production") and to exchange these products for products created by others. Man has found that, through the process of voluntary, mutual exchange, the productivity and hence, the living standards of all participants in exchange may increase enormously. The only "natural" course for man to survive and to attain wealth, therefore, is by using his mind and energy to engage in the production-and-exchange process. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a "social contract"; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ It should be clear that the peaceful use of reason and energy in production is the "natural" path for man: the means for his survival and prosperity on this earth. It should be equally clear that the coercive, exploitative means is contrary to natural law; it is parasitic, for instead of adding to production, it subtracts from it. The "political means" siphons production off to a parasitic and destructive individual or group ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one's own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others.... I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the "economic means" for the satisfaction of need while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the "political means."... The State is an organization of the political means. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ No State, therefore, can come into being until the economic means has created a definite number of objects for the satisfaction of needs, which objects may be taken away or appropriated by warlike robbery. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ Through this path, men have learned how to avoid the "jungle" methods of fighting over scarce resources so that A can only acquire them at the expense of B and, instead, to multiply those resources enormously in peaceful and harmonious production and exchange. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ The classic paradigm was a conquering tribe pausing in its time-honored method of looting and murdering a conquered tribe, to realize that the time-span of plunder would be longer and more secure, and the situation more pleasant, if the conquered tribe were allowed to live and produce, with the conquerors settling among them as rulers exacting a steady annual tribute. ”

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Murray Newton Rothbard, Anatomy of the State — What the State Is (1974)

“ Man is born naked into the world, and needing to use his mind to learn how to take the resources given him by nature, and to transform them (for example, by investment in "capital") into shapes and forms and places where the resources can be used for the satisfaction of his wants and the advancement of his standard of living. ”

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