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Anatomy of the State - Murray N. Rothbard

Anatomy of the State

Murray N. Rothbard

出版社

Ludwig von Mises Institute

出版时间

2009-01-01

ISBN

9781933550480

评分

★★★★★

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政治学N.Rothbard自由主义政治

书籍介绍
Murray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this book is his most powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institution that violates all that we hold as honest and moral, and how it operates under a false cover. He shows how the state wrecks freedom, destroys civilization, and threatens all lives and property and social well being, all under the veneer of "good intentions."
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  • "This device of “nationalism” has only been successful, in Western civilization, in recent centuries; it was not too long ago that the mass of subjects regarded wars as irrelevant battles between various sets of nobles."
  • "For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceiv-able alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the “intellectuals.” For the masses"
  • "It is evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual’s livelihood in the free market is never too secure; for the intellectual must depend on the values and choices of the masses of his fellow men,"
  • "One method is to induce historiographical determin-ism, as opposed to individual freedom of will. If the X Dynasty rules us, this is because the Inexorable Laws of History (or the Divine Will, or the Absolute, or the Material Productive Forces) have so decreed and nothing any puny individuals may do"
  • "If, however, any tyranny imposed by the State, or venality, or aggres-sive war, was caused not by the State rulers but by mysterious and arcane “social forces,” or by the imperfect state of the world or, if in some way, everyone was responsible (“We Are All Mur-derers,” proclaims one slogan), then t"
  • "One doctrine that has gained curiously wide acceptance is the alleged “sanctity of treaties.” This concept is treated as the counterpart of the “sanctity of contract.” But a treaty and a genuine contract have nothing in common. A contract transfers, in a precise manner, titles to private property. S"
  • "While social power is over nature, State power is power over man. Through history, man’s productive and creative forces have, time and again, carved out new ways of transforming nature for man’s benefit. These have been the times when social power has spurted ahead of State power, and when the degre"
用户评论
不是国家这种组织形式不行，而是人类这个物种不行。我说真的。
罗斯巴德走得太远了，奔向了反国家的无政府主义，但这篇文章对社会权力和国家权力的区分有点意思
国家和知识分子的联盟在维系国家所起的重要作用以及为什么知识分子需要国家、国家如何突破各种限制以扩张其权力（例如获取对宪法的解释权）、人类的历史可以看作是社会力量（人类作用于自然并改造自然的力量）和国家力量的竞赛。
可怕！！！！
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