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Transcript of For a New Liberty CTIR Literature Series 1 Part 2 Chapter 3.
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For a New Liberty CTIR Literature Series 1Part 2Chapter 3
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The State
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The State as the Aggressor
•The supreme and best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public.
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Taxation
•Every person or group receives its income by voluntary payment.
•Exception for government.▫ONLY government obtains its income by
coercion and violence. Direct threat of confiscation or
imprisonment. ▫ONLY government can use its funds to
commit violence against others.
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Who Protects Us From the State? • The Constitution?
▫ Must be interpreted by men.
▫ Those men are employed by the State.
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Are We Not the Government?
•If “we” are the government, then anything a government does is voluntary. ▫If so, then the Jews murdered by the Nazi
government were NOT murdered. They were the government.
•Even if 90% of the people still decided to murder the other 10%, it’s still murder.
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State Will Become an Oligarchy
•Rule by a coercive elite which has managed to gain control of the State.
•Why?▫Inequality and division of labor inherent in
the nature of man; and▫The nature of the State.
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Who Makes Up this Elite? • The full-time apparatus.
▫ i.e. kings, politicians, and bureaucrats who man and operate the State.
• The groups who have maneuvered to gain privileges and benefits from the State.
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The State and the Intellectuals
•The mechanism for how the compliance and acquiescence of the mass is secured. ▫The masses follow passively the ideas of
the intellectuals. •But why?
▫Quid pro quo. The intellectual are granted, by the State,
power, status, and material security. Needed to plan the economy and society.
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The State and the Intellectuals (cont.)•But how?
▫Tradition and habit. Provides legitimacy of the rule under which
people live. ▫Deprecate the individual.
Exalt the society instead. Any new idea must begin as a minority
opinion. ▫Make its rule seem inevitable.
There is nothing anyone can do about it.
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The State and the Intellectuals (cont.)•But how?
▫Fear. Man’s natural love of homeland.
Identification of that land is a means of making natural patriotism work. ▫Us VS Them.
▫Guilt. Any increase in private well being = greed. Mutually beneficial exchanges = selfish.
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The Use of Scientific Jargon
•Permits intellectuals to create excuses for the State. ▫Example – the multiplier effect.
A thief would NOT be allowed to justify his theft by saying he was helping his victims by his spending.
BUT the government is allowed.
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The Libertarian Creed
•The absolute right of every man to the ownership of his own body;
•The absolute right to own and control the material resources man has found and transformed; and
•The absolute right to exchange or give away the ownership to such titles.
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Themes
•State as the biggest aggressor.•Constitution defined by the State. •Intellectuals used to further the State.
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Thank you!
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