How to Do Politics Well
ReImagining Liberty
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The State's Fundamental Nature Is Violence
The state's fundamental nature is violence in the service of accomplishing certain hands and a perceived legitimacy to that violence. If it's written as a law then the state can punish you. It can fine you if you don't pay the fine, try to garnish your wages or lock you up for refusing to go along with its policies. That's what this tool is. And I think one way we can distinguish the the American right frequently from the American left is that much of the right particularly the reactionary liberal right understands that nature of the tool.
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