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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Recommended sermon:
When Government Tries to Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray
