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  • What exactly do you mean? Monopolization? Superstructure? Violence? Where do I need to start? At the definition of a state?

    My critique is as follows: Violence is currently monopolized by a hierarchical system of command & control - the state. I (and I’m presuming: OP as well) question the legitimacy of the state and its’ monopoly of violence.

    I would prefer it if the necessary amount of violence would be controlled by horizontal power structures.










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    7 days ago

    Why would I think of something better than a strawman when replying to a strawman?

    As I said in another post: Cops protect the bourgeois, white-supremacist, colonialist, patriarchal state by enacting violence on the ruled class. That’s not a judgement: it’s their purpose in the system.

    Individuals with bully-like personalities self-select into that job, while decent people are actively shunned. Because group cohesion is more important than “doing the right thing”.

    Why do you defend cops so much?