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" "Está en la naturaleza de los hombres el reaccionar contra la iniquidad de que sean víctimas. Así, pues, cuando la expoliación está organizada por la ley, en beneficio de las clases que la dictan, todas las clases expoliadas tienden por vías pacíficas o revolucionarias a tener alguna participación en la confección de las leyes. Tales clases, según sea el grado de esclarecimiento a que hayan llegado, pueden proponerse dos finalidades muy diferentes al perseguir la conquista de sus derechos políticos: o quieren hacer cesar la expoliación legal, o aspiran a participar en dicha expoliación.
Frédéric Bastiat (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was an early free-market economist and classical liberal French author.
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Try to imagine a regulation of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property. If you cannot reconcile these contradictions, then you must conclude that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
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The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.