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The Stateless Society

An Examination of Alternatives

by Stefan Molyneux

If the Twentieth
Century proved anything, it is that the single greatest danger to human life are
the thugs of the centralized political State, who extinguished more than 170
million souls during the bloodiest rampage in recorded history. By any rational
standard, modern States are the last and greatest remaining predators – and that
the danger has not abated with the demise of communism and fascism. All Western
democracies currently face vast and accelerating escalations of State power and
centralized control over economic and civic life. In almost all Western
democracies, the State chooses:

where children go to
school, and how they will be educated
the interest rate citizens
can borrow at
the value of
currency
how employees can be hired
and fired
how more than 50% of their
citizens’ time and money are disposed of
who a citizen’s doctor
is
what kinds of medical
procedures can be received – and when
when to go to war
who can live in the
country
…just to touch on a
few.

Most of these
amazing intrusions into personal liberty have occurred over the past 90 years,
since the introduction of the income tax. They have been accepted by a
population helpless to challenge the endless expansions of State power – and
yet, even though most citizens have received endless pro-State propaganda in
government schools, a growing rebellion is brewing. State predations are now so
intrusive that they have effectively arrested the forward momentum of society,
which now hangs before a fall. Children are poorly educated, young people are
unable to get ahead, couples with children fall ever-further into debt, and the
elderly are finding State medical systems collapsing under the weight of their
growing needs – and State debts continue to grow.

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