A statist system—whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or “welfare”
type—is based on the . . . government’s unlimited power, which means: on the
rule of brute force. The differences among statist systems are only a matter
of time and degree; the principle is the same. Under statism, the government
is not a policeman, but a legalized criminal that holds the power to use
physical force in any manner and for any purpose it pleases against legally
disarmed, defenseless victims.
Nothing can ever justify so monstrously evil a theory. Nothing can justify the
horror, the brutality, the plunder, the destruction, the starvation, the
slave-labor camps, the torture chambers, the wholesale slaughter of statist
dictatorships.