> History has shown pretty clearly that governments on the more-coercive side of the spectrum have caused more death and destruction than those on the less-coercive side.

I'm not seeing it. Absent governments in the third world cause quite a bit of death and destruction every year.

> A government coercing dollars out of a population by force and a society that is based on using products produced by people other than themselves are two different things altogether.

Until somebody steals something. Then you've got two options: Either you let them take it, in which case you're communist and don't have property, or you chase them down and make them give it back, in which case you're a despot and every transaction made is only made with your implicit consent.

There ain't no free enterprise.