Spencer Heath Archive

Item 595

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Political or coercive administration appropriates the properties and products of subjects and slaves, then feeds and protects them with benevolence out of this violence (we hope).

Proprietary or contractual administration is that in which, without benevolent intent, the few freely appro­priate and apply their own properties to the use, service and/or protection of the many for sake of rich recompense received in exchange.

Political administration infringes freedom, penalizes production, destroys properties and values.

Proprietary administration practices freedom, expands production, creates properties and values.

These two types of human administration are to each other as life is to death. Shall we examine their respective and opposite modes of operation and thereby learn how either of them is destroyed only by extension of the other? Which shall it be?