The Tom Woods Show, Episode 1808, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Anthony Samaroff, we continue with a discussion

of what leads people towards stateism. We covered a little bit. What might lead them toward

libertarianism, but what is it that impels people toward stateism and the state as the driving

force of society that has the solutions to our problems? Where does that come from? There are some

obvious and some not-so-obvious answers. We're going to explore them today. Anthony, welcome back.

Thank you for having me back. All right. Now we're going to talk about more or less our own

situation, which even though we're surrounded by a lot of Marxists, we are not living in a Marxist

society. But there are certain factors at work that tend to push people, if not toward Marxism,

then certainly toward stateism by which we mean a system in which the state directs.

I'm just kind of making up this definition as I go along, but directs major aspects of society

and is viewed as indispensable and tends to be the first recourse people have when there's a

problem. I think the state must have some way of solving it. Now, there are a lot of factors leading

people in that direction, even if they say, oh, Marxism is bad or communism is bad. However,

I certainly do need the state to do x, y, z and a, b and c. So let's talk about what factors

do lead people down that road. I certainly have some ideas. I'm looking for us to hearing them.

One thing I definitely think as a factor is people increasingly don't feel capable of

meeting the demands of modernity. And for reasons that I'll explain it, if you feel that,

that you're not capable of meeting the demands of a market economy, you're probably going to be

hostile to the market. I think it's important that we, you know, we always take into account the

fact that most of history takes place in scarcity. And for most of history, people dead what their

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