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“There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive violence directed against innocent victims, aggressive violence is the nature of any state.”

Source: A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics

“Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent.”

“Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).”

Source: The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy

“Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.”

Free Market Egalitarianism Anarcho Capitalism Austrian School Of Economics Self Ownership

Book:Democracy: The God That Failed

Source: Democracy: The God That Failed