Sounding a decidedly Libertarian view, Zhuangzi (also known as Chuang Tzu, as Rothbard calls him), “was perhaps the first theorist to see the state as a brigand writ large: ‘A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State.’ Thus, the only difference between state rulers and out-and-out robber chieftains is the size of their depredations.”
