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Are We Dependent on Growth to Stop Violence?
There might be essential violence of one form or another that we can't get rid of. It's very important not to fantasize about a world without violence because nobody's ever figured out how to devise such a world. You can talk about monopolizing violence, which is Weber's theory of the state. One thing we've learned is various techniques for avoiding violence due to taxation schemes and concepts of patriotism.