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#165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts

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Is There a Line Between Pure Capitalism and Anarchism?

Michael Malice is a fellow Russian Ukrainian. His idea that violence won't take over in anarchism is one that feels to me not grounded in reality. A state will always emerge because even people always think of states as like people rubbing their hands and smoking cigars in back rooms, right? So if you want to have your anarchist utopia, well, we'll call it an Anarchist creation here. At certain scale, I'm sure it's doable. But as it scales, as the scale increases, it's completely untenable and a state will emerge.

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