Fat Cats And Bigga Fish/The Political Means

[johnny_red]

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Nowhere has the coercive and parasitic nature of the State been more clearly limned than by the great late nineteenth-century German sociologist, Franz Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer pointed out that there are two and only two mutually exclusive means for man to obtain wealth. One, the method of production and voluntary exchange, the method of the free

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[mmoneurere]

Does Oppenheimer suggest a non-state means for maintaining the social relations of private property and contractual exchange? I'd be interested in reading his details on the subject; I've yet to find an effective model of property which didn't rely on either a de facto state (thus collapsing the economic into the political in Oppenheimer's model as far as I can see) or an abstract essentialist model of property (which would require other means to put into practice -- resulting once again in a de facto coercive state apparatus and undermining the defense of property which it attempts to put into place).