Quoting Samuel Bostaph: > I think that Mason Gaffney and I (and Mises) are perpetual ships passing in > the night. As Mises argued in THEORY AND HISTORY (Yale University Press, > 1957), history is not theory, although it requires theory to understand > it--as Mason amply illustrates as he recounts and "explains" the dastardly > historical past of our corrupt present. > > Yes, almost all governments that I can call to mind originated from some > brute(s) seizing resources and parceling them out to his (or their) > lackeys. The great David Hume maintained that all government is founded on conquest or usurpation. Who can gainsay him? Anthony Waterman