Memorable Rothbard

[In democracy], we, are not the government; the government is not "us". The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.

State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered, but by coercion.


Add by Michalko. V poslednej vete profesor Rothbard trochu pozabudol. Existuje ešte jedna organizácia, ktorá získava prostriedky týmto istým spôsobom, ba v mnohých (ak nie vo všetkých) ohľadoch štát napodobuje a pripomína. Táto organizácia sa nazýva mafia.