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The author traces the origin of centralized political power to conquest and class domination rather than to a voluntary social contract, arguing that organized rule emerges when one group subjugates another and seizes resources. Drawing on comparative historical and sociological evidence, he shows how war, expropriation, and economic accumulation give rise to ruling classes and institutional instruments such as taxation, law, and bureaucracy. The work critiques contractarian and gradual-growth accounts, formulates a principle connecting prior economic accumulation to state formation, and considers cooperative and associative arrangements as alternatives to coercive governance.

NOTES

1 “History is unable to demonstrate any one people, wherein the first traces of division of labor and of agriculture do not coincide with such agricultural exploitations, wherein the efforts of labor were not apportioned to one and the fruits of labor were not appropriated by some one else, wherein, in other words, the division of labor had not developed itself as the subjection of one set under the others.”—Robertus-Jagetzow, Illumination on the social question, second edition. Berlin, 1890, p. 124. (Cf. Immigration and Labor. The economic aspects of European Immigration to the United States, by Dr. Isaac A. Hourwich. Putnam’s, N. Y., 1912.—Translator.)

2 Achelis, Die Ekstase in ihrer kulturellen Bedeutung, vol. 1 of Kulturprobleme der Gegenwart, Berlin, 1902.

3 Grosse, Formen der Familie. Freiburg and Leipzig, 1896, p. 39.

4 Ratzel, Völkerkunde. Second Edition. Leipzig and Wien, 1894–5, II, p. 372.

5 Die Soziale Verfassung des Inkareichs. Stuttgart, 1896, p. 51.

6 Siedlung und Agrarwesen der Westgermanen, etc. Berlin, 1895, I, p. 273.

7 l. c. I, p. 138.

8 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 702.

9 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 555.

10 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 555.

11 For example with the Ovambo according to Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 214, who in part “seem to be found in slavelike status,” and according to Laveleye among the ancient Irish (Fuidhirs).

12 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 648.

13 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 99.

14 Lippert, Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit. Stuttgart, 1886, II, p. 302.

15 Lippert, l. c. II, p. 522.

16 Römische Geschichte. Sixth Edition. Berlin, 1874, I, p. 17.

17 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 518.

18 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 425.

19 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 545.

20 Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 390–1.

21 Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 390–1.

22 Lippert, l. c. I, p. 471.

23 Kulischer, “The history of the development of interest from capital.” Jahrbücher für National Œkonomie. III series, vol. 18, p. 318, Jena, 1899: (Says Strabo: “Plunderers and from the scant supplies of their native land covetous of the lands of others.”)

24 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 123.

25 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 591.

26 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 370.

27 Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 390–1.

28 Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 388–9.

29 Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 103–04.

30 Thurnwald, Staat und Wirtschaft im altem Ægypten. Zeitschrift für Soz. Wissenchaft, vol. 4 1901, pp. 700–01.

31 Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 404–05. (Gumplowicz, Rassenkampf, p. 264: “Egypt, rich and self-sufficient, says Ranke, invited the avarice of neighboring tribes, who served other gods. Under the name of the Shepherd peoples, foreign dynasts and foreign tribes ruled Egypt for centuries.

“Truly, the summary of universal history could not be begun with more characteristic words than those of Ranke. For in the words applied to Egypt the quintessence of the whole history of mankind is summed up.”—Translator.)

32 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 165.

33 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 485.

34 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 480.

35 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 165.

36 Buhl, Soziale Verhältnisse der Israeliten, p. 13.

37 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 455.

38 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 628.

39 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 625.

40 Cieza de Leon, “Seg. parte de la crónica del Peru.” P. 75, cit. by Cunow, Inkareich (p. 62, note 1).

41 Cunow, l. c. p. 61.

42 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 346.

43 Ratzel, l. c. II, pp. 36–7.

44 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 221. (Cf. remarks by Hon. A. J. Sabath, M. C., Sociological Argument on Workman’s Compensation Bill, p. 498, Senate Document 338, Sixty-second Congress, Second Session, Volume I. See also Congressional Record for March 1, 1913, Sixty-second Congress, Third Session, pp. 4503, 4529, et seq.Translator.)

45 “Among the Wahuma women occupy a higher position than among the negroes, and are watched carefully by their men. This makes mixed marriages difficult. The mass of the Waganda even to-day would not have remained a genuine negro tribe ‘of dark chocolate colored skin and short wool hair’ were it not that the two peoples are strictly opposed to one another as peasants and herdsmen, rulers and subjects, as despised and honored, in spite of the relations entered into among the upper classes. In this peculiar position, they represent a typical phenomenon, which is found repeated at many other points.”—Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 177.

46 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 178.

47 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 198.

48 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 476.

49 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 453.

50 Kopp, Griechische Staatsaltertümer, 2, Aufl. Berlin, 1893, p. 23.

51 Uhland, Alte hoch und niederdeutsche Volkslieder I (1844), p. 339 cited by Sombart: Der moderne Kapitalismus, Leipzig, 1902, I, pp. 384–5.

52 Inama-Sternegg, Deutsche Wirtsch.-Gesch. I, Leipzig, 1879, p. 59.

53 Westermarck, History of Human Marriage, London, 1891, p. 368.

54 Cf. Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 81.

55 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 156.

56 Ratzel, l. c. I, pp. 259–60.

57 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 434.

58 I. Kulischer, l. c., p. 317, where other examples may be found.

59 Westermarck, History of Human Marriage, p. 400, which contains a number of ethnographical examples.

60 Westermarck, l. c., p. 546.

61 Cf. Ratzel, l. c. I, pp. 318, 540.

62 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 106.

63 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 335.

64 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 346.

65 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 347.

66 Buecher, Entstehung der Volkswirtschaft, Second Edition, Tübingen, 1898, p. 301.

67 Cf., Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 271, speaking of the islanders of the Pacific Ocean: “Intercourse from tribe to tribe is carried on by inviolable heralds, preferably old women. These act also as intermediary agents in trades.” See also page 317 for the same practises among the Australians.

68 German Translation by L. Katscher. Leipzig, 1907.

69 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 81.

70 Ratzel, l. c. I, pp. 478–9.

71 A. Vierkandt, Die wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse der Naturvölker. Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, II, pp. 177–8.

72 Kulischer, l. c. pp. 320–1.

73 Lippert, l. c. I, p. 266, et seq.

74 Cf. Westermarck, History of Human Marriage.

75 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 27.

76 Herodotus IV, 23, cited by Lippert, l. c. I, p. 459.

77 Lippert, l. c. II, p. 170.

78 Mommsen, l. c. I, p. 139.

79 Similar conditions may be observed among the islanders near India. Here the Malays are vikings. “Colonization is an important factor, as conquest and settlement oversea ... reminding one of the great rôle played in ancient Hellas by the roving tribes.... Every strip of coast line shows foreign elements, who enter uncalled for and in most instances spreading damage among the natives. The right of conquest was granted by the rulers of Tornate to noble dynasts, who later on became semi-sovereign viceroys on the islands of Buru, Serang, etc.”

80 Mommsen, l. c. I, p. 132.

81 Mommsen, l. c. I, p. 134.

82 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 160.

83 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 558.

84 Buhl, l. c., p. 48.

85 Buhl, l. c., pp. 78–79.

86 Mommsen, l. c. II, p. 406.

87 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 191; cf. also pp. 207–8.

88 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 363.

89 Mommsen, l. c., p. 46.

90 Both cited by Kulischer, l. c., p. 319, from: Buechsenschuetz, Besitz und Erwerb im grieschischen Altertum; and Goldschmidt, History of the Law of Commerce.

91 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 263.

92 F. Oppenheimer’s Grossgrundeigentum und soziale Frage. Book Two, Chapter I. Berlin, 1898.

93 Nomadism is exceptionally characterized by the facility with which, from patriarchal conditions, despotic functions are developed with most far-reaching powers. Ratzel, l. c. Vol. II, pp. 388–9.

94 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 408.

95 Cunow, l. c. pp. 66–7. Similarly among the inhabitants of the Malay Islands numerous examples are found in Radak (Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 267).

96 Buhl, l. c., p. 17.

97 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 66.

98 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 118.

99 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 167.

100 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 218.

101 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 125.

102 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 124.

103 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 118.

104 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 125.

105 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 346.

106 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 245.

107 Ratzel, l. c. I. pp. 267–8.

108 Mommsen, l. c. III, pp. 234–5.

109 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 167.

110 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 229.

111 Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 128.

112 Weber’s Weltgeschichte, III, p. 163.

113 Thurnwald, l. c., pp. 702–3.

114 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 712; cf. Schneider, Kultur und Denken der alten ÆEgypter, Leipzig, 1907, p. 38.

115 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 599.

116 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 362.

117 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 344.

118 Meitzen, l. c. II, p. 633.

119 Inama-Sternegg, l. c. I, pp. 140–1.

120 Mommsen, l. c. V, p. 84.

121 Cf. the detailed exposition of this in F. Oppenheimer’s Grossgrundeigentum und die soziale Frage, Book II, Chap. 3.

122 Mommsen, l. c. III, pp. 234–5.

123 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 771.

124 Meitzen, l. c. I, pp. 362f.

125 Inama-Sternegg, l. c. I, pp. 373, 386.

126 Cf. F. Oppenheimer’s Grossgrundeigentum, p. 272.

127 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 706.

128 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 503.

129 Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 518.

130 Meitzen, l. c. I, p. 579: “At the time of the compilation of the Lex Salica, the ancient racial nobility had been reduced to common freemen or else had been annihilated. The officials, on the other hand, are rated at threefold wergeld, 600 solidi, and if one be ‘puer regis’ 300 solidi.”

131 Thurnwald, l. c. p. 712.

132 Inama-Sternegg, l. c. II, p. 61.

133 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 705.

134 “The larger camps of the army of the Rhine obtained their municipal annexes partly through army suttlers and camp followers, and particularly through the veterans, who after the completion of their services remained in their accustomed quarters. Thus there arose distinct from the military quarters proper, a distinct town of cabins (Canabæ). In all parts of the Empire, and especially in the various Germanias, there arose in the course of time, from these camps of the legionaries, and particularly from the headquarter stations, cities in the modern sense.”—Mommsen, l. c. V, p. 153.

135 Eisenhardt, Gesch. der National Oekonomie, p. 9: “Aided by the new and more liquid means of payment in cash, it became possible to call into being a new and more independent establishment of soldiers and of officials. As they were paid only periodically it became impossible for them to make themselves independent (as the feudatories had done) and then to turn on their paymaster.”

136 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 773.

137 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 699.

138 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 709.

139 Thurnwald, l. c., p. 711.

140 Cf. with this F. Oppenheimer’s Grossgrundeigentum etc., Book II, Chap. 3.

141 “Tendency, i. e., a law, whose absolute execution is checked by countervailing circumstances, or is by them retarded, or weakened.” Marx, Kapital, vol. III, p. 215.

142 Cf. the excellent work of Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid in its Development.

143 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Die Siedlungsgenossenschaft etc., Berlin, 1896, and his Grossgrundeigentum und soziale Frage, Berlin, 1898.

144 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Bevölkerungsgesetz des T. R. Malthus. Darstellung and Kritik, Berlin-Bern, 1901.

145 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Grundgesetz der Marxschen Gesellschaftslehre, Darstellung und Kritik, Berlin, 1903.

146 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Grundgesetz der Marxschen Gesellschaftslehre, Part IV., particularly, the twelfth chapter: “Tendency of the Capitalistic Development.”

147 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Grossgrundeigentum und soziale Frage, Berlin, 1898. Book I, Chapter 2, Section 3, “Philosophy of the Social Body,” pp. 57 et seq.

148 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Grossgrundeigentum, Book II, Chap. 2, Sec. 3, p. 322.

149 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Grossgrundeigentum, Book II, Chap. 3, Sec. 4, especially pp. 423 et seq.

150 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, “Die Utopie als Tatsache,” Zeitschrift für Sozial-Wissenschaft, 1899, Vol. II, pp. 190 et seq.

151 Cf. F. Oppenheimer, Siedlungsgenossenschaft, pp. 477 et seq.

152 Cf. André Siegfried, La démocratie en Nouvelle Zelande, Paris, 1904.