{"product_id":"2940157806781","title":"The State","description":"Oppenheimers \"The State\" is a widely read and heatedly discussed book. It has been translated into English, French, Hungarian, Serbian, Japanese, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian and has impressed and inspired very different thinkers like Israeli Dan Halutz, American communitarians, and American libertarians like Albert Jay Nock, Murray Rothbard and Frank Chodorov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike Locke and others, Oppenheimer rejected the idea of the 'social contract' and contributed to the 'conquest theory of the state', heavily influenced by the earlier Jewish sociologist Ludwig Gumplowicz and his inter-tribal, intergroup competition, 'race-conflict' (Rassenkampf) theories of the sociological genealogy of the state:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo primitive state known to history originated in any other manner. Wherever a reliable tradition reports otherwise, either it concerns the amalgamation of two fully developed primitive states into one body of more complete organisation, or else it is an adaptation to men of the fable of the sheep which made a bear their king in order to be protected against the wolf. But even in this latter case, the form and content of the State became precisely the same as in those states where nothing intervened, and which became immediately 'wolf states'\"","brand":"JPU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084240437488,"sku":"2940157806781","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157806781_p0.jpg?v=1764109181","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157806781","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}