Allow me to ransom your citizens, not only to the tune of my losses but beyond, and you will grant profits to my industry.
Category: Plunder
ABOUT A NEW HIGH SCHOOL TO BE FOUNDED IN BAYONNE
The Romans lived through extorsion while we live trough industry.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
If the tax were collected this way you would not tolerate it, however, this is what the lord is doing in a different guise.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
External exploitation corresponds to war, conquests, colonies. Internal exploitation corresponds to taxes, government offices, monopolies.
SUBSISTANCE
This is legal plunder, the worst of all.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DISTRICT OF SAINT-SEVER
If growing rapeseed is in itself a sound activity, there is no need to give any supplementary profit to those who practice it. If it is unsound, the extra income does not make it sound.
ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TARIFFS
Protection is plunder indeed because it is the privilege to operate scarcity through legislation, creating dearth in order to abuse the buyer.
WAR
The characteristic feature of plunder is its inability to provide any satisfaction without a corresponding privation…
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
But have the rich on that account renounced the policy of plunder? It has never occurred to them. The argument of the indirect beneficial effects of spending continues to serve as their pretext.
PRIVATE PROPERTY AND COMMON WEALTH.
It is not the principle of property that must be attacked, but, on the contrary, the principle hostile to it, the principle of spoliation and plunder.
WEALTH.
Modern philosophers who declaim against wealth without taking into account the difference in the means of acquiring it liken themselves to Seneca or Christ. They are mere parrots repeating words that they do not understand.
REFLECTIONS ON THE AMENDMENT OF M. MORTIMER-TERNAUX
Once legal plunder of the poor for the benefit of the rich has become part of the system, with the support of the majority, how will we be able to reject legal plunder of the rich for the benefit of the poor?
FREE CREDIT
It is harmful to the lender, since when he needs to take out a loan he becomes a victim of the same (kind of) plunder.
PLUNDER AND LAW
Do you therefore want trade not to be free? Do you therefore want it to be carried out under the influence of oppression?
PROPERTY AND PLUNDER
No, economists do not think that we are in the best of all worlds, as they are reproached for doing.
THE LAW
You have to choose between partial plunder, universal plunder, and no plunder at all. The law can pursue one of these three alternatives only.