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The State
Franz Oppenheimer
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There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one’s own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others. Robbery! Forcible appropriation! These words convey to us ideas of crime and the penitentiary, since we are the contemporaries of a developed civilization,25 specifically based on the inviolability of property. And this tang is not lost when we are convinced that land and sea robbery. . . Read More
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Interesting and quick theory on where government comes from.
Interesting Quotes:
"I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means.
we live in a State
A TRACING OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ‘SOCIOLOGIC IDEA OF THE STATE’
George H. Smith wrote in his Introduction to this edition, “Franz Oppenheimer’s ‘The State’ … has influenced a variety of radical intellectuals. Oppenheimer’s influence is measured not by the number of his readers but by their quality
A fantastic book, one of the most important books of political philosopy and absolutely indispensible for a proper understanding of the nature and history of government. The State - as Oppenheimer explains - in essence is the means with which one group of people enslaves and plunders a subjugated gr
I couldn't finish this book. There is something that is extremely irritating about it. Something that drives me nuts. However, the content that I read was extremely good and valuable. Oppenheimer argues against the social contract theory and produces a six step theory on how states arise. There is h
Everyone should read at least once.
Hillarious.
The most important contribution to state theory is the distinction between economic and political means. The rest of the book's content is a abstract history of the evolution of the state, using the above mentioned distinction, witch in my opinion is not complete and can only serve as a template to
This was a far less pleasant read than I was expecting--Oppenheimer provides substance but makes it difficult to digest. His greatest contribution to political science and economics is the distinction between "economic means" and "political means." Still, I would like to see further expansion upon h
Oppenheimer's State contains pretty unique aproach to early state theories. He is seen as a critique of marxist aproach with the 'political means' perspective of society. When in Engels' "origin of the state, family and private property" the state derives from the society itself, for oppenheimer the