What Has Government Done to Our families?
Translated and adapted: Dan Cristian Comănescu
Original title: Allan Carlson, “What
Has Government Done to Our families?”. Translated and e-published with author's permission.
Institutul Ludwig von Mises Romania
”One may not make the way to liberal thinking easier for anyone, for what is of importance is not that men declare themselves liberals, but that they become liberals and think and act as liberals.”
Ludwig von Mises
Public schooling,
child labor laws, public insurance, pensions and the whole welfare
system are time-bombs, placed by the intellectual body-guards
of the state in the bosom of traditional families. The game of
political competition - for the control and creative enlargement
of the channels of legal spoliation - thusly destroys children
and parents alike. By destroying the economic interdependencies
that cement their cultural, moral and spiritual communion, it
gradually reduces them to the status of mutually alien, impotent
atoms. Perhaps the only socially viable strategy so far, to avoid
the gradual atomization and helplessness leading to universal
infeudation to the state, has been the non-violent, but firm,
refusal of public "assistance", "aid", and
brain-washing in any form, and the rejection of militarism even
at the price of martyrdom, by the non-violent (pre-modern like,
quasi-ascetic, though undoubtedly libertarian) Old Order Amish
Communities. The world owes them the survival and flourishing
of homeschooling, in countries yet incompletely flooded by socialism.
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