Walter basically just peaced out preemptively toward the end of his debate with Dave because he was getting bodied 😂🤣
"The State...essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad.
"Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.
"No primitive state known to history originated in any other manner."
𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢 ("miss the mark") as a double entendre for Exodus 13:9/16
"Control of the lower classes has been a function of policing at every point since the institution’s birth, and has served as one of the major determinants of its development.
"In the South, the police first approached their modern form after a long process of adaptation and experimentation in the official means of controlling the slave population."
"Let’s begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. When persuasion, indoctrination, moral pressure, and incentive measures all fail—there are the police.
"In the field of social control, police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action.
"Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent."
The Roman state's execution of the Christ delivers to us the ultimate repudiation of the ways and means of empire.
Their essence of disorder, domination, destruction, and death becomes the faithful's order, liberation, creation, and life within a grand, cosmic rebirth.
Politics is Pestilence
I don't condone violence
"Armed with such a philosophy and with such a philosopher, the modern state would take its divinely appointed stand at the height of history and civilization, as God on earth. Thus, 'The modern State, proving the reality of political community, when comprehended philosophically, could therefore be seen as the highest articulation of Spirit, or God in the contemporary world.' The state, then, is 'a supreme manifestation of the activity of God in the world,' and, 'the State stands above all; it is Spirit which knows itself as the universal essence and reality'; and, 'The State is the reality of the kingdom of heaven.' And finally, 'The State is God’s Will.'"
~Murray Rothbard, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand:
Corporate Capitalism as a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
by Kevin Carson
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-the-iron-fist-behind-the-invisible-hand
"But genuine markets have a value for the libertarian left, and we shouldn't concede the term to our enemies. In fact, capitalism - a system of power in which ownership and control are divorced from labor - could not survive in a free market. As a mutualist anarchist, I believe that expropriation of surplus value - i.e., capitalism - cannot occur without state coercion to maintain the privilege of usurer, landlord, and capitalist. It was for this reason that the free market anarchist Benjamin Tucker - from whom right-libertarians selectively borrow - regarded himself as a libertarian socialist."
"Most such intervention is tacitly assumed by mainstream right-libertarians as part of a 'market' system. Although a few intellectually honest ones like Rothbard and Hess were willing to look into the role of coercion in creating capitalism, the Chicago school and Randroids take existing property relations and class power as a given. Their ideal 'free market' is merely the current system minus the progressive regulatory and welfare state - i.e., nineteenth century robber baron capitalism."
"The current structure of capital ownership and organization of production in our so-called 'market' economy, reflects coercive state intervention prior to and extraneous to the market. From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called 'laissez-faire' was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline."
