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Afghanistan and the Criminal Gang called the Government

The political institute of the state historically evolved out of conquest of peaceful people by the hoards of marauders. Murray Rothbard in his important work   Anatomy of the State   discussed this theory,   We are now in a position to answer more fully the question: what is the State? The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the “organization of the political means”; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory. For crime, at best, is sporadic and uncertain; the parasitism is ephemeral, and the coercive, parasitic lifeline may be cut off at any time by the resistance of the victims. The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively “peaceful” the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society. Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”; it has always been born in conque

There Are Trade-Offs

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The global hunger report 2021 puts  India at 101 out of 116  countries. Neighboring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal are also better in terms of hunger compared to India. The only country in Asia that is behind India is Afghanistan. The Indian government has expressed its shock on the latest ranking. They have brushed aside these findings by saying that they are “non-scientific”, but government’s own  NITI Aayog said  the same thing few years ago, Niti Aayog’s SDG Index 2019, released on December 27, 2019, says that more Indians have fallen into poverty, hunger, and income inequality in the past two years. This is after a remarkable reduction in poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16. On the other hand the Prime Minister has unveiled a program of military buildup in India via seven state-run defense companies! Prime Minister  said  that the goal of this policy is, to make India the world’s biggest military power on its own.  He also said, a single-window system has been put

Afghanistan and the Criminal Gang called the Government

The political institute of the state historically evolved out of conquest of peaceful people by the hoards of marauders. Murray Rothbard in his important work   Anatomy of the State   discussed this theory,   We are now in a position to answer more fully the question: what is the State? The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the “organization of the political means”; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory. For crime, at best, is sporadic and uncertain; the parasitism is ephemeral, and the coercive, parasitic lifeline may be cut off at any time by the resistance of the victims. The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively “peaceful” the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society. Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”; it has always been born in conque