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The State Is the Monopoly of Violence
I think it's important to look at your work and examine particularly the things that you look at where we're talking about sort of ways that the state is building up local capacity through investing in fiscal architecture. So if we replace a government with a new government, we haven't changed the state until we change the state. If we have governments that are ideological predisposed to expanding vulnerability to pre-emature death then we haven't really changed the state except for on paper.