> Ganz im Sinne von Thomas Paine: "ein Regierung ist in ihrer besten
> Form
> ein notwendiges, in ihrer schlimmsten ein untragbares Übel".
> Reduziere
> einen Staat auf das Gesetzmonopol, und du wirst das "notwendige
> Übel"
> haben.
Nur warum macht das denn niemand? (ausser Paine und ein paar anderen
'right-wing wackos' in ihren Traeumen?)
And make no mistake: the logic of the State apparatus is always to
expand. As Mises says, "governments have always looked askance
at private property. Governments are never liberal from inclination.
It is the nature of the men handling the apparatus of compulsion
and coercion...to strive at subduing all spheres of human life....
Statism is the occupational disease of rulers, warriors, and civil
servants."
As for those who believe that the State is the instrument by which
we raise ourselves above our petty concerns to deal with crisis,
Mises asks us to remember that the "State is a human institution,
not a superhuman being. He who says ‘State’ means coercion and
compulsion. He who says: there should be a law concerning this
matter, means: the armed men of the government should force
people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they
like. He who says: this law should be better enforced, means: the
police should force people to obey this law. He who says: the State
is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the State is the
worship of force...."
The worst aspects of a state are made worse in war. Says Rothbard,
"In war, State power is pushed to its ultimate, and, under the
slogans of 'defense' and 'emergency,' it can impose a tyranny upon
the public such as might be openly resisted in time of peace. War
thus provides many benefits to a State, and indeed every modern
war has brought to the warring peoples a permanent legacy of
increased State burdens upon society."