IPFS News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
A Plague on Both Your Houses - by Carl Watner
• Wendy McElroyThe classical definition of the State is that it is an institution
which possesses one or both (and almost always both) of the following
characteristics: (1) it acquires its income by physical coercion, Known
as taxation; and (2) it asserts and maintains a coerced monopoly of th¾
provision of defense services (police, army and courts) over a given
territorial area.