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'''Statism''' is a political or economic position in which the role of the [[state]] is deemed to be paramount. This could - for example - manifest itself in directly state-controlled enterprises or economic planning  directed by the [[government]].

'''Statism''' is a political or economic position in which the role of the [[state]] is deemed to be paramount. This could - for example - manifest itself in directly state-controlled enterprises or economic planning  directed by the [[government]].

{{cquote|'''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.'''

{{cquote|'''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 [[Gun control|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. <small>-- “War and Peace,”

'''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. <small>-- “War and Peace,”

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