Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Jun 24, 2020

@strypey Again, remove "the state", and I see one of three options:

  • There are multiple entities committing violence with no imposed or collective limits.
  • There is a single entity or structure with a de facto monopoly on violence. (Alternately, a set of rapidly cycling such entities.) Tautologically, that is a state.
  • Unicorns farting rainbows wing through skies raining kittens and there is no violence at all. Good luck with that.

    • Weber's definition isn't a critique of the state. It's an observation that there are three element; legitimacy, molopoly, and use of force, and that when you have all three, what exists is by his definition (which you may or may not accept, and I reserve judgement), a state.

    If you see specific fault with this, please say.

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