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Government is a fabrication of property owners...

... to assure that their enjoyment of their property is not infringed upon.

Pre-feudal giovernments may have declared that all land was the property of the government in order to increase the power of the King or Pharaoh or whatever other title was taken by the most important property owner.

But in practice ownership of the land became inheritable, and held by people with sufficient accumulation to have authority rivaling that of the King.

One attempt to escape this gradual assumption of land from the King was to give its administration to religious groups. This assisted neither efficiency nor maintenance of the King's power. Ancient Egypt was more than once ruled by a Priest-King, sometimes with a Pharaoh rival.

Money - which ancient Egypt did not have - added a new type of property. As the Federal Reserve will confirm, money is intellectual property.

So money and other intellectual property became another reason for governments to continue in existence.

But governments always threaten to become more trouble than they're worth. If property rights were never threatened, the State could wither away, and property would remain the single basis of organized human society. Good riddance.


Some of the people from whom marx took his ideas were right.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 08/16/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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