ABSTRACT
The State is almost universally considered an institution of social service. The State has never been created by a "social contract"; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation. Albert Jay Nock happily termed these contesting forces: "social power" and "State power". Social power is man's power over nature, his cooperative transformation of nature's resources and insight into nature's laws, for the benefit of all participating individuals. Social power is the power over nature, the living standards, achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive and parasitic seizure of this production — a draining of the fruits of society for the benefit of nonproductive (actually enfi-productive) rulers. While social power is over nature, State power is power over man. Through history, man's productive and creative forces have, time and again, carved out new ways of transforming nature for man's benefit.
