"The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning and exploiting class and a property-less dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose."

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Source : "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.

Albert J. Nock

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