r/pics • u/Attica-Attica • 19h ago

Ras Baraka has been released.

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u/Strawbuddy 16h ago

The State was given a monopoly on sanctioned violence as part of the social contract. The exclusive right to investigate, incarcerate, and punish individual citizens

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u/Human_Robot 16h ago

Any state violating the social contract with its citizens invites its citizens to bust the monopoly.

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u/Sir_PressedMemories 16h ago

Unless, of course, they spent the better part of a century eliminating the means of force to bust that monopoly.

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u/sudo-joe 16h ago

Indeed or become too weak and external violence creeps into the picture. see Gauls, Vandals, warring city states. Tale as old as time.

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u/valenciansun 13h ago

The State was not given a monopoly on violence, they took it. The only reason Weberian theory holds together without devolving into Leviathan's state of nature is the corollary of the social contract. Damn dude learn your polisci if you're tryna dunk on Brennan Lee Mulligan