Talk:Night-watchman state
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Definitely Not a Correct Association
[edit]From the article...
As a term, night-watchman state (German: Nachtwächterstaat) was coined by German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle in an 1862 speech in Berlin. He criticized the bourgeois liberal limited government state, comparing it to a night-watchman whose sole duty was preventing theft. The phrase quickly caught on as a description of capitalist government, even as liberalism began to mean a more involved state, or a state with a larger sphere of responsibility.
From me...
How could minarchy possibly be confused with any capitalist government? There is nothing minimal about capitalist governments, as they are all massive bureaucracies. LOL.
Thibeinn (talk) 19:13, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
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