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May 26, 2011

Our Enemy, The State

Few realize how enormously and how rapidly in recent years the State has everywhere built up its apparatus of armies and police forces.

The State has thoroughly learned the lesson laid down by Septimius Severus, on his death-bed. "Stick together," he said to his successors, "pay the soldiers, and don't worry about anything else." It is now known to every intelligent person that there can be no such thing as a revolution as long as this advice is followed; in fact, there has been no revolution in the modem world since 1848 - every so-called revolution has been merely a coup d'etat. All talk of the possibility of a revolution in America is in part perhaps ignorant, but mostly dishonest; it is merely "the interested clamours and sophistry"of persons who have some sort of ax to grind. Even Lenin acknowledged that a revolution is impossible anywhere until the military and police forces become disaffected; and the last place to look for that, probably, is here. -- by Albert J. Nock, Chapter 6

Posted by Vanderleun at May 26, 2011 10:04 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Their greed could be their undoing. What happens when the wheels fall off the public pension systems?

Posted by: Casca at May 27, 2011 6:05 AM

Though the revolution here is more insidious, it’ll be, and is right now, coming from the inside out. No force required.

Posted by: tim at May 27, 2011 6:14 AM

"Coxey's Army marched on Washington - and it kept off the grass."

Posted by: Anonymous at May 27, 2011 6:23 AM

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