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The great German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that there are two mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth; one, the above way of production and exchange, he called the “economic means.”
The other way is simpler in that it does not require productivity; it is the way of seizure of another’s goods or services by the use of force and violence.
The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the “organization of the political means”; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory.
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively “peaceful” the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.[5]
