Tag: Conquest and subjugation - the genesis of the State

Key idea: "The State can have originated in no other way than through conquest and subjugation" (F. Oppenheimer)

• Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin - by Jason Lowery (2023)
• When human populations become too docile or domesticated, either their territory gets physically captured, or their belief system gets psychologically exploited. --- [ Individual is always exploited ]
• The Human Condition - by Hannah Arendt (1958)
• Slave labor
• Authority and the Individual - by Bertrand Russell (1949)
• From wars of conquest to slavery resulted in two sorts of people within a community
• The Criminality of the State - by Albert Nock (1939)
• It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal
• Our Enemy, the State - by Albert Nock (1935)
• The State originated in conquest and confiscation
• Anarchist's Progress - by Albert Nock (1927)
• The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes—an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class
• The State - by Franz Oppenheimer (1908)
• The State, as a class-state, can have originated in no other way than through conquest and subjugation
• Natural Law or the Science of Justice - by Lysander Spooner (1882)
• The answer is that some people organized themselves as robbers, to plunder and enslave all others: the State
• Of the original contract - by David Hume (1748)
• Almost all the governments have been founded either on usurpation or conquest