"The great German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that there are two mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth (..) the other way is simpler in that it does not require productivity; it is the way of seizure of another's goods or services by the use of force and violence (..) The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the "organization of the political means"; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory. "
https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state/html/c/32