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Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.

Jeffrey Tucker

Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.

Tags: anarcho capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian school of economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, indoctrination, libertarian

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About Jeffrey Tucker

Jeffrey Albert Tucker (born December 19, 1963) is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin.
He worked for Ron Paul, the Mises Institute, and LewRockwell.com for many years. Beginning in 2020, he organized efforts against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions with the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), and in 2021 he founded the Brownstone Institute think tank to continue such efforts.
As of 2021, he is Chief Liberty Officer (CLO) of Liberty.me. He is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research affiliate of the Blockchain Innovation Hub of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technogy, and an Acton Institute associate.