Government is Incomplete Conquest

... taxation without representation, eventually leading to the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence. Stories of how political order developed beyond the kind of order found in tribal societies usually begin with thugs and bandits. Once the thugs ... ... often transmuted into heroes and benefactors. I have in mind, not only the knights in shining armor. Consider the American Robber Barons who became America's great philanthropists (Josephson, 1962). In Russia, the former Komsomol apparatchik,...