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Dictatorship (Carl Schmitt)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Sovereign Dictatorship Is a Defining Feature of the Modern Theory of the State

The spartan harmosts and others such as the elected tyrants of macedon, had absolute power to do what they wished with the society over which they ruled. Only a commissary dictator can exist within the boundaries of any modern theory of the state without exploding the state itself. This is schmidtz corps point. We are not done with history yet.

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