Murray Rothbard on the State and Anti-Capitalism

„Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .“

Murray RothbardMurray Rothbard critiques the state as inherently anti-capitalist and examines its incursions on private property and enterprise.
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Murray Rothbard was an American economist, historian, and political philosopher known for his contributions to libertarian theory and anarcho-capitalism.

The quotation presents Rothbard's fundamental criticism of the state from a libertarian and anti-statist perspective.


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Murray Rothbard quote about the state and its inherently anti-capitalist nature

Murray Newton Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, historian, and political philosopher considered one of the leading figures in anarcho-capitalism and the libertarian movement. He was a prominent critic of government intervention in economy and society and authored numerous influential works on free market economics, monetary theory, and political philosophy.

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"The state is, by its very nature and essence, a social institution imposed by a victorious group of people on a defeated group of people for the sole purpose of regulating the rule of the former over the latter and securing it against internal uprisings and external attacks. And this rule has no other ultimate purpose than the economic exploitation of the defeated by the victors." Franz Oppenheimer
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Murray Rothbard quote about the State, liberty, happiness, and human progressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive, exploitative, parasitic, and hence profoundly antisocial. The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress." Murray Rothbard
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Quote by Albert Jay Nock about the State being anti-social and limiting individual rightsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing." Albert Jay Nock
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Walter Lippmann quote about the absolute power and authority of the modern stateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats." Walter Lippmann
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