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If a regime of complete economic freedom can be established, social x
and political freedom will follow automatically; and until it is estab- oO
lished neither social nor political freedom can exist. Here one comes
in sight of the reason why the State will never tolerate the establish- oO
ment of economic freedom. In a spirit of sheer conscious fraud, the oe
State will at any time offer its people “four freedoms,” or six, or any ®
number; but it will never let them have economic freedom. If it did, c
it would be signing its own death-warrant, for as Lenin pointed out, C

“It is nonsense to make any pretence of reconciling the State and <
liberty.” Our economic system being what it is, and the State being ~

what it is, all the mass verbiage about “the free peoples” and “the free >

democracies” is merely so much obscene buffoonery. 0

——Albert Jay Nock er

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