"If, then, taxation is compulsory, and is therefore indistinguishable from theft, it follows that the State, which subsists on taxation, is a vast criminal organisation far more formidable and successful than any "private" Mafia in history."
Murray Rothbard
The following two
videos (the second is the squeal to the first) offer up a thought
experiment exploring the legitimacy of the State, its policies of
taxation and its foundations in violence. On this blog I often post
about all the nefarious things States do and speculate as to the deep
power structures that may lie behind them. I don't know who's
ultimately pulling the strings of this world, whether there's a
conspiracy run by secretive Illuminati type group, a more
poly-centric corporate power structure or just politicians short
sightedly bumbling along from one genocidal disaster to the next. Whilst it's important and also fascinating to speculate on such
things, for any deep power structure to exert power over us they must
first convince us of one thing, and that is that violence is
acceptable when it's carried out by a group called 'The State'.
Margaret Thatcher's
famous line that 'there is no such thing as society' has been
endlessly quoted since her passing. I want to suggest something
different, I want to suggest that there is actually no such thing as
the State, that it is a mythical entity no more real than dragons or
unicorns and is simply a way in which we legitimising violence. You
may think that the State is necessary, that civilisation may collapse
and burn without it and you may of course be right. But given the
inherent and unlimited violence from which it draws its power, would
it not be worth at least exploring to see if there is an alternative?
Here we have the film 'George Ought to help'
And here we have the follow up, the disscusion that took place between two friends after watching the film
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