Ideologies / Geoanarchist / Albert Jay Nock
§ The minds · 1870–1945 · United States · Writer
Albert Jay Nock
Our enemy, the state
Georgist and radically anti-state.
Economic+20
SocialistMarket
Governance−88
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+30
TraditionalProgressive
The essayist whose 'Our Enemy, the State' fused Georgist land economics with a radical anti-statism, distinguishing voluntary 'social power' from the coercive state — a forefather of geoanarchism.
social
Cultured individualist progressive.
economic
A Georgist who saw land monopoly as the state's original sin.
governance
Drew a sharp line between 'social power' and the predatory state.
Notable for
- 'Our Enemy, the State'
- Georgist anti-statism
- 'Isaiah's Job'
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