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Government is Incomplete Conquest

... societies usually begin with thugs and bandits. Once the thugs and bandits have consolidated their power and wealth, they are often transmuted into heroes and benefactors. I have in mind, not only the knights in shining armor. Consider the American Robber Barons who became America's great philanthropists (Josephson, 1962). In Russia, the former Komsomol apparatchik, Mikhail Khodorkovsky amassed his fortune by dubious means. He then turned to transforming his oil company into a paragon of ...

22.10.2015

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