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The State is the Health of War (Full Speech)

by Keith Knight | May 27, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

First, we should recognize that institutions such as states show a natural aggressiveness. The explanation is very simple. If you have to fund your own aggressive ventures yourself, out of your own pocket, that will somewhat curtail your natural inclination to fight other people, because you have to pay for it yourself. On the other hand, if you imagine that if I want to fight some of you guys and I can tax him or him or him and ask them to support me in my fighting endeavors, then whatever my initial aggressive impulses might be, are certainly stimulated because I can externalize the cost of war onto other people. I don’t have to bear the cost myself. Other people have to bear the cost. This explains why institutions that have the power to tax, and also institutions that have the power to print money, in later ages, have financial abilities that make it more likely that they go to war than you would go to war if the power to tax was lacking or the power to print money was lacking on your part.

– Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Economy, Society, and History

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Two Myths That Keep “Wokism” Alive (feat. Tom Woods)

by Keith Knight | May 2, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

[I]f this were truly a “white supremacist” society, being called a white supremacist would be a badge of honor, not a professional death sentence.

– Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Tom Woods, of The Tom Woods Show, and I discuss two Social Justice Myths that keep “Wokism” alive.

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10 Lessons From ‘Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War’ (feat. James Corbett)

by Keith Knight | Apr 24, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone, Uncategorized

On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war.

Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe had served as the site of the most murderous combat known to man, and civilians had suffered worse horrors than the soldiers.

By May 1945, Red Army hordes occupied all the great capitals of Central Europe: Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Berlin. A hundred million Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph Stalin.

What cause could justify such sacrifices?

– Patrick J. Buchanan

The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source.

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How the Divine Right of Kings Scam Was Pulled Off

by Keith Knight | Apr 23, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

In order for the state to function, the mass of the people has to believe in its legitimacy. To that end, the state employs a class of professional apologists and controls the means of propaganda, often through dominance of the education system. The task of the State apologist is “…to convince the public that what the State does is not… crime on a gigantic scale, but something necessary and vital that must be supported and obeyed.” In return for their services, the apologists are rewarded with power and status and allowed to share in the booty obtained from the masses.

– Gerard Casey, Ph.D., Libertarian Anarchy: Against the State (2012, Continuum International Publishing Group), p. 27.

Dr. Patrick Newman, a Fellow of the Mises Institute, is assistant professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a Fellow of its Center for Free Enterprise.

Book discussed: Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849

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