July 29, 2007 7:09PM 

# Anarchists vs. Statists 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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[A book reviewer in Saturday’s *Wall Street Journal*](http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118558180290380907.html) discusses the assassination of Italy’s King Umberto I in 1900 by an anarchist and writes:

> Murderous anarchists would plague Europe and America for more than a decade.

And murderous statists for the rest of the century, with rather more effect.

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