is the higher productivity of the division of labor. It removes the natural conflict of interests. For where there is a division of labor, there is no longer question of the distribution of a supply not capable of enlargement…. A preeminent common interest, the preservation and further intensification of social cooperation, becomes paramount and obliterates all essential collisions…. It makes for harmony of the interests of all members of society.[4]
What is necessary for society to develop in this case is that people have the capacity to resist the temptation to commit aggression or to suppress those who succumb to such temptation in order to gain the higher productivity of the division of labor. Why the suppression of criminals would have to be monopolized in the state is not clear.
The first paragraph is Lu Mises, the second is Jeffrey Herbener of Grove City College.
The Mises People have been messing around with their web site. To quote a MASH character, "I don' like it! No, sir! I don' like it at all!!" Their footnote links take you to a login page when the footnotes are located at the bottom of the article! And the bleepin' Blog no longer shows the whole article, nor does it link to it!
Piss me off?! [Ed note: I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a question or not - it's not pronounced like one - but I certainly didn't want my readers to consider it a command.]
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