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Tag: Albert Jay Nock

(1870–1945) Influential American libertarian author, educational theorist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th century.

Two means of survival

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man’s needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 12, 2018November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories liberty, socialismTags Albert Jay Nock

Golden Rule of citizenship

Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 18, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories citizenshipTags Albert Jay Nock

Superficial distinctions of socialism

The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 29, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories socialismTags Albert Jay Nock

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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