| Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock (10/01/1935) Originally published in 1935, this elegant essay on the nature of the state shows the important distinction between state power and social power. "Every assumption of power, whether by gift or seizure," Nock writes, "leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power." | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) |
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