“Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard identified the State as a predatory organism. It is the “organization of the political means.” The State produces nothing by itself but takes what other people have produced. From this we can deduce a vital fact. Society must have existed before the State. Otherwise, there would be nothing for the State to take.” https://mises.org/power-market/menace-state nostr:note18rkqhh5dxdzewum3cf4lp02r5vcpfakwds9q8g5gc6r7gav9hn4qx7seld