Prelude to Politics (10) -- Political Nature of Economic Activity & Politics - Creator of Resources & Anti-Criminal Nature of Politics -- A First Chain of Points - An Emerging Thread of Arguments

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Politics (7) - Politics (18):

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• implying the distinctiveness of economics and politics is the cardinal sin of classical liberalism

• laissez faire of the spontaneous order of a free society is good, effective and morally commendable, in contradistinction to the use of human creativity in shaping the social realm 

• supporting the wrong impression that the economy proper is a fine place devoid of coercion, while politics invades the peace by subjecting us to coercion 

• giving the matter this slant is prone to make us look in the wrong direction, seeking more free exchange and less politics 

• when, of course, free exchange is the result of coercive structures such as property rights arrived at by political means.

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• political behaviour is a way of partaking in the human ability to broaden and improve the range of options from which man is able to choose means to make life richer with opportunities and conveniences

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• one task of politics is to organise the state as bulwark against criminal organisations

• criminal organisations subject people outside of its own circle to predation. 

• in criminal organisation, success is sought by treating outsiders in ways (robbing, killing them etc.) that represent precisely the transgressions from which the state protects people by recognising them as being "free and equal"

• politics is the only avenue by which the population at large can ensure against criminal predation by a colluding power elite

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