LIBERTARIANISM IN THE MARTIAL CLASS My family has been in the martial class for

LIBERTARIANISM IN THE MARTIAL CLASS

My family has been in the martial class for all of recorded history. There is little if any mention of the family without military rank.

The source of liberty – the Aristocratic Egalitarian Ethic – is a martial ethic. A martial ethic of meritocratic enfranchisement that expanded into the middle class during manorialism, and the middle class into aristocratic status during the late middle ages, and into the enlightenment.

The source of liberty, and therefore the source of private property, is violence.

We pay for the institution of private property by forgoing opportunities for violence.

We institute a monopolistic definition of property as private property by the application of violence.

That is our monopoly. That is what any portfolio of property rights is: a monopoly on the definition of property within a geography. We refer to this set of property rights as ‘culture’ and we may institutionalize that portfolio as ‘law’ and administer it by ‘government’. But it is a monopoly on property rights and obligations.

The source of private property is violence. It must be violence. It may be, for limited time periods, bribery: that we purchase private property rights from those who prefer communal property portfolios, by granting them access to the market where they can obtain what they could not otherwise, in exchange for profiting ourselves from that market by their participation.

But any argument that private property was the not product of the application of violence, or any argument that suggests that we can maintain private property without the application of violence is either an error, an act of ignorance, an act of foolishness, or an elaborate deception.

Private property is the desire of the minority. It was, and is, instituted and maintained by the application of violence, just as any monopolistic definition of property rights is instituted.