Our Enemy, the State -

Albert J. Nock

Dalia Text Service

2012

226 páginas

7h 32m

ISBN-10: B007F2HB6C

Classic political tract by Albert Nock that is most relevant in our time. Nock meticulously outlines the trends of an ever-growing state and demonstrates why the state, as such, is an anti-social institution.

A superb example of thinking outside the box, Nock gets the reader of our time to question the authority that we give the State over our lives in the same way that we once questioned the authority of Church to curtail individual freedom for its own ends.

Annotated, edited and with a foreword by Paul Lambert, this release of Nock's classic work is most relevant in our time and its appeal transcends national boundaries, leaving readers with a sense of empowerment and a realisation that the State only has as much power as we are willing to give it.

Controversial both in its day as it is now, the modern reader will recognize much of the argument presented within the book from the current political debate. Why do we trust the State to succeed where other instutions have failed? Is there a difference between the "State" and "government"? Can we have one without the other? Why is every social emergency turned into an opportunity for the State to increase its powers? Why have we come to expect the State always to "do something" about any perceived ill or inconvenience?

"Our Enemy, The State" is as much a critique of our preconceived notions about governance and about one another as it is an uncompromising exposition of the State as such and how it must inevitably treat human beings.