To maintain the illusion of consent, the State promotes the fiction of "representative government." In such a system some people can supposedly "consent" to the theft of property belonging to other people, and sanctify the plunder as an act of "mutual" consent. Exactly the same claim can be made by any other robber band. Of course, this comparison ( Read more... )

This is an excerpt from Everyday Anarchy, by Stefan Molyneux. Perhaps I am naive or maybe I'm being sucked into Molyneux's evil cult, but I do find the logic of this piece to be nearly unassailable in its critique of the contradiction of democracy with respect to the state. It does make the assumption that anarchy, i.e., statelessness, is ( Read more... )