‘Every collapse of which we have sufficient
evidence was preceded by the same course of events.
The State, in its insatiable lust for power, increasingly intensified
its encroachments on the economy of the nation, causing
a consequent decline of interest in production, until at
long last the subsistence level was reached and not enough
above that was produced to maintain the State in the condition
to which it had been accustomed. It was not economically
able to meet the strain of some immediate circumstance,
like war, and succumbed. Preceding that event, the
economy of Society, on which State power rests, had deteriorated,
and with that deterioration came a letdown in
moral and cultural values; men ‘did not care.’ “
Rise and Fall of Society – Frank Chodorov RIP
