The State is a Predator

June 4, 2007 7:55 AM by David Gordon (Archive)

Let us take Frank Chodorov seriously as a major contributor to the libertarian intellectual tradition. Society does not need the State, argued Chodorov. Quite the contrary, the State is parasitic on social cooperation. Predators seize the chance to grab for themselves what others have peacefully produced. At first, predatory raids are sporadic; but intelligent predators soon realize that they can entrench their theft on a permanent basis and the State is born. FULL ARTICLE