Government Power Rests on Violence and Coercion

Government Power Rests on Violence and Coercion - reason.com

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“Ukrainian events have demonstrated,” writes Maria Snegovaya in The New Republic, 'that control of violence is still at the very essence of the state.' She says Vladimir Putin’s aggression proves that Max Weber’s definition of the state—an entity with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force—is still relevant, even though we in the West “tend to think of the ‘monopoly on violence’ as a metaphor.”
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When Government Tries to Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray