The Left, The Right, & The State

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:50:45 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Lew Rockwell at LewRockwell.com - Mr. Rockwell introduces his new book, The Left, The Right, & The State.

In American political culture, and world political culture too, the divide concerns in what way the state's power should be expanded. The left has a laundry list and the right does too. Both represent a grave threat to the only political position that is truly beneficial to the world and its inhabitants: liberty. What is the state? It is the group within society that claims for itself the exclusive right to rule everyone under a special set of laws that permit it to do to others what everyone else is rightly prohibited from doing, namely aggressing against person and property.

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