A Spontaneous Order Quotes

“The State has a legal monopoly on the right to use aggression against others in the form of taxation and compulsory edicts (legislation). Not only must “customers” pay into its operation without regard to their consent, but they must surrender to the rules its internal processes determine at all times. Additionally, the State has a monopoly on the provision of security, and has anointed itself as the ultimate arbiter in all conflicts, including those conflicts which involve its own agents. It”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and anonymous online markets such as the Silk Road. Digital cryptocurrencies provide an individual with an array of benefits unlike anything the market actor has ever experienced. They provide a means by which one may transfer wealth securely, anonymously, and with virtually zero transaction costs. Naturally, this allows one to safely avoid taxes in the course of a transaction as there is no means by which said transaction may be traced backed to him. More importantly however, the use of such digital currencies normalizes the idea of using private currencies to the general public. The State's status as the sole producer of money is one of its greatest sources of legitimacy and power; thus, the proliferation and expanding use of private currencies constitute effective means by which State rule may be peacefully undermined.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“While abstract conceptual thought has no tangible, concrete existence, it is the product of a scarce, material body, subject to nature’s causal laws. Indeed, actors rely on the regularity of such causal laws to successfully reach their goals. When actors make choices, utilizing their knowledge and preferences, they deliberately implement causes in the world for the sake of creating particular effects. If an actor’s environment did not operate on reliable, causal laws, action would be impossible. An actor could never hope to predict the effects of his behavior based on past experiences, and therefore the achievement of his ends would have to take place without any expectation that one particular cause leads to a particular effect. Without a causally-stable external reality, every behavior would produce new, unique effects, about which no systematic prediction could ever be made. Actors would exist in a perpetual state of random flux, wherein any type of planning or prediction would be impossible. In sum, the world in which action takes place is and must be governed on the basis of cause and effect.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“The fight against aggression – which is the fight for liberty – is the most important one of our time and will continue to be until liberty has prevailed. Ending the story of our enslavement should be top priority for those seeking to liberate man from all manners of oppression, subjugation, and exploitation.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“As the number of individuals who had been “peacefully reared” grows, the State's power and legitimacy will correspondingly fade. These individuals will likely be among the more avid and vociferous promoters of the libertarian philosophy for two reasons: (1) They will not be as conditioned as their counterparts to accept edicts given by arbitrary authority figures, and the fear emanating from the State's threats will accordingly be less effective against them; and, (2) they will already have experienced how free associations organize and form, and the benefits they entail.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“More populist mediums such as Facebook and YouTube have also enabled many libertarians/anarchists to introduce the masses to the ideas of liberty, effecting an enormous swell in number. This trend is expected to continue as the reliance on State regulated mass media and propaganda is continually undermined by the common man's access to the virtually endless depths of knowledge present on the Internet. Beyond”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“One of the most perpetrated myths regarding corporations is that they are or must be creatures of the State. This is categorically false, and is often times mistakenly thought to be the case due to the modern day marriage between various mega-corporations and the State. However, this is merely a symptom of a State regulated economy. There”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“The power to legislate is the power to perpetrate aggression and is thereby antithetical to private property rights, the free market, and justice. Before”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Invariably, the larger a given firm becomes the more involved it will tend to be with matters of the State as its success increasingly comes to rely on compliance with an entrenched regulatory apparatus. In addition to this, a larger firm will have more resources by which to direct the State's power in its own favor and to the expense of its competitors.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“The absence of the State is not a lacking of governance or a social safety net, but rather the presence of a beautiful spontaneous order whose efficacy and humanitarian output could never be paralleled by central fiat.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“A free market society is one that is absent of any institutionalized aggression or legal privilege. This society allows all possible mutually beneficial exchanges between parties, and it therefore produces the greatest amount of wealth. There”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“The truth is State agencies crowd out private charity and mutual aid. Tragically, the State rarely "helps" the poor; it merely subsidizes them, thereby increasing their number.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Thus, contrary to the popular narrative that people are slaves to the terms on which a given employer may be willing to hire them, the employers themselves are subject to concrete economic incentives not to short change employees either on the basis of wages or working conditions. Such incentives are due to competition between employers for labor, just as there is competition between prospective employees for jobs. If”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“In addition to its purely criminal nature, taxation also hinders the production of wealth. The funds taken by taxes do not reflect consumer demand for a given good or service, but rather are the result of violent confiscation. This”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“It is important to consider that before the State is able to do anything, it must first violate the property rights of its citizens through the collecting of taxes. Despite this fact, however, the State is still predominately held as the single institution capable of competently protecting private property rights. This blatant paradox may only be perpetuated through incessant propaganda. For”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“1)    State intervention destroys and/or hinders the production of wealth 2)    The resulting economic woes are attributed to an "under-regulated" market 3)    The State increases the scope and degree of its interventions 4)    Steps one through three are repeated until the economy falls to ruin”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Thus, the true obstacles to wealth generation are the entities which attempt to artificially regulate the use of economic goods for which they themselves have no just claim. The State is a prime example of just that: an institution which asserts control over economic goods that its agents never acquired through original appropriation or voluntary exchange.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.6”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“A population which at its youth is taught to obey authority for its own sake and that is, to a large degree, reared by State functionaries (public teachers) will be far easier to control and manage once it transitions into adulthood. Though this end may not be consciously acknowledged or pursued overtly by public teachers, it is nonetheless a prominent result.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Public schools are only marginally concerned with parental satisfaction as they cannot, under threat of force, withdraw their financial support from them. Aaron”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“The only rights people have, according to free market anarchists (libertarians), are property rights. The Non-Aggression Principle itself is simply a derivative of one's ownership of his own body and property. Owning something, after all, entails the exclusive right to employ said something so long as such employment does not entail aggressive interference with the persons or property of others.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Aggression does not satisfy the inherent demands of existence, i.e., the demand for acquiring food, shelter, water, education, love, etc. On the contrary, it exacerbates such needs and creates a zero-sum game between the members of society, where one may only gain at the direct expense of others. Aggression thus promotes chaos, not cooperation. Only when individuals choose to deal with each other voluntarily and respect private property rights may their dealings result in mutual benefit and a net increase in their wealth. Ludwig”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“The use of aggression to ensure the provision of any product or service precipitates and manifests the very fears for which its use was originally demanded. This is no different in the provision of education. The only tool wielded by the State to which market participants are not privy is that of aggression. Markets are defined by their absence of systemic aggression, because it may only be used to destroy, diminish, and pervert. Aggression”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“However, in order for the State to raise the price of this or any other services, some degree of public support is needed. Thus, the State will tend to provoke or allow crime or the threat of foreign aggression to increase, so that it may cite these security threats when expanding its own budget for defense. Take, for example, the destruction of the twin World Trade Center towers. Subsequent to the terror attacks on 9/11, the Department of Defense budget was massively increased, federal agents took over the role of providing airport security, and the Department of Homeland Security was born.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“A monopoly on the legal right to initiate force does not decrease the danger peaceful people face from aggressive people; in fact, an institution such as this serves to attract those who desire power and coercive control over others to its own positions of authority. This”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“The State claims its role is to defend persons and their property. Prior to the provision of such service, however, it must first steal from people the very property it claims to protect via taxation. The”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“In a free market society, the functions of security, auditing, media, consumer evaluations, insurance, investigation, arbitration, and law enforcement will be provided in tandem in order to maintain the protection of the consumers that finance them. Highly contingent and specific details cannot be determined beforehand, however.”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Specifically regarding the problem at hand: in a private-law society the production of security — of law and order — will be undertaken by freely financed individuals and agencies competing for a voluntarily paying (or not-paying) clientèle, just as the production of all other goods and services.13”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Hoppe demonstrates that the State is not immune from the principles of economics. The exercise of a State monopoly over the provision of any service will lead to the same inefficiencies and destruction of wealth as any other monopolistic operation. The”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society

“Legislative law systems also tend to be inferior as the legal system is comprised of many disparate laws unrelated to any rationally justified principles, and as such, are less credible compared to decentralized legal systems which tend to extrapolate from organically established legal principles. Furthermore,”
― Christopher Chase Rachels, A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist Case For A Stateless Society