Our Enemy, the State

actual Albert Jay Nock American anti-social appears Articles of Confederation Bay colony British called character citizen civil coercive collectivism colonial America colonists competition concerned conquest and confiscation consequences constitution coup d'État democracy depletion of social doctrine of popular economic means economic rent effect ENEMY England enterprise established example exercise existed fact federal feudal FRANK CHODOROV freedom and security Hence idea individual institution interests invariably Jefferson labour land land-tenure matter ment merchant-enterpriser merchant-State merely mind mode monopoly natural rights never Nock nomic observed origin party persons philosophy of natural political means political organization popular sovereignty positive interventions practical primary principle purely Puritan purpose reason regarded régime of status rental-values republican revolution Rhode Island rights and popular seen social power society speculation Spencer State-system State's Statism tend terests theory tion unit use-value