the state as a voluntary association

• There is no such thing as governing mankind, as a wise man once said, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone. All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people
• The State is to be a voluntary association - manufacturer and distributor of necessary commodities, organise labour. The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful
• tyrannies over body and soul
• community and authority over art
• "Living in the New Middle Ages"

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1. imagined community of russians

   Erefia is a sovereign state located between the EU, the Middle East, Asia, the Arctic, and the Pacific Oceans. It is the last empire in the world