Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:20:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: More on Mullen


John Mullen asks in a follow-up:  what do libertarians think about the
origins of the state?

	THAT is a can of worms... I think most libertarians tend to adopt
the sociology of Franz Oppenheimer on this issue, and they see the
emergence of class society and the state as concurrent.  Oppenheimer saw a
distinction between the "economic means" and the "political means" of
gaining values, and saw the state as an agency of the political means, at
the heart of the very notion of class.  Albert Jay Nock adopted much of
Oppenheimer's sociology, and this was inherited intellectually by many of
the modern libertarians, including Murray Rothbard.
					- Chris
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