The political winds in Great Britain are shifting toward railway nationalization. Of course, the vaunted railway privatization of the 1990s wasn’t real privatization in the first place.

Not surprisingly, neoconservatives have tried to rehabilitate the British Empire, calling it benign and a civilizing force in Africa and Asia. Like all other empires, however, it was held together by violence and subjugation.

People have come to believe that only the state is morally qualified to create and maintain a system of justice. However, given that the state itself acts unjustly, perhaps it is time to look outside of the state.

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While chattel slavery exists in some parts of the world, it mostly has been abolished. Perhaps we should do the same thing to the state.