if government is the monopoly of legitimate violence, does the breakdown of that monopoly into individual actors outside of government de facto consitute essentially competing visions of new states?
i wonder if this is unclear... i don't mean like, violence arising directly from the breakdown of the society, like random crimes, but specifically the sort of organizational structures that arise when ppl start feeling the need to defend themselves outside of a government apparatus
@emaytch I think so. like crystals forming in a solution. just not as pretty.