"The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against the revolt from within and attacks from abroad.  

Teleologically, this dominion has no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors. ~ Franz Oppenheimer, The State 

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