{"text":"There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive violence directed against innocent victims, aggressive violence is the nature of any state.","author":"Hans-Hermann Hoppe","tags":["aggression","anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","collectivism","communism","evil","free-markets","free-trade","freedom","government","individualism","initiation-of-force","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","nap","non-aggression-principle","politics","self-ownership","statism","voluntaryism","voluntaryist"],"id":14755,"author_id":"Hans-Hermann+Hoppe"}