2 thoughts on “The Democrat Presidential Candidates”
If that were so, they’d have to be thousands of years old, because so is statism. As Nock pointed out, basing his work on sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, the State arose when nomadic raiders realized that instead of invading an area and killing everyone and stealing all their goods, they could stay in the area, leave their victims alive and let them keep enough of their goods to stay alive, and produce new wealth for the plunderers to steal.
Old ideas is a rather cliche attack at this point along with failed policies of the past. It doesn’t matter if these criticisms are true or not because they way they are presented has lost all meaning.
If that were so, they’d have to be thousands of years old, because so is statism. As Nock pointed out, basing his work on sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, the State arose when nomadic raiders realized that instead of invading an area and killing everyone and stealing all their goods, they could stay in the area, leave their victims alive and let them keep enough of their goods to stay alive, and produce new wealth for the plunderers to steal.
Old ideas is a rather cliche attack at this point along with failed policies of the past. It doesn’t matter if these criticisms are true or not because they way they are presented has lost all meaning.