Though obscure today, the German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer crafted a radical theory of the state. In his book
The State, he argued that the state's origins were not in public justice or establishing laws but in the reign of a conquering group over their defeated foes. His work influenced libertarian theorists such as Albert Jay Nock, Walter Block, and Murray Rothbard.
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