"Amidst the flux of expansion or contraction, the State always

makes sure that it seizes and retains certain crucial “command

posts” of the economy and society. Among these command

posts are a monopoly of violence, monopoly of the ultimate

judicial power, the channels of communication and transportation (post office, roads, rivers, air routes), irrigated water in

Oriental despotisms, and education—to mold the opinions of

its future citizens. In the modern economy, money is the critical command post."

#rothbard Anatomy of the State