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What Must Be Done or Society, State, and Liberty: The Austro-Libertarian Strategy of Social Revolution. by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
In this concise and ever-timely essay on how anarcho-capitalists should engage the modern state, Hans-Hermann Hoppe dissects the nature of the modern democratic state and then suggests strategies for enacting a bottom-up libertarian revolution in ideology and civil government.
Hoppe begins by examining the nature of the state as “a monopolist of defense and the provision and enforcement of law and order.”
Like all state-mandated monopolies, that state’s monopoly on the provision of law enforcement leads to both higher prices and lower quality of the service or product in question. And yet, this unsustainable and inferior state of affairs is tolerated because modern democratic states, much more so than the monarchies and princely estates of old, are seen as moral and a necessary in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
In the minds of most modern subjects of democratic states, law and order is what the state says it is, and this has led to a long period of ...