Nick Land on Power, Force, and Fiat Currency | 7/17/23
The Auron MacIntyre Show
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Can Constitutions Contain State Sovereignty?
Any government that does not have a monopoly of violence, more or less inside its borders will be a failed state. This is something that like libertarians get wrong all the time. They tend to believe that you first direct the law, first you get the contract law in place and then order arises from it. That's not how it works at all. The question of violence must be answered by the state first. And once it is answered, then the state might be bound to some extent by laws. After that question is settled, after the question of force inside the state is settled, then you can work towards building civilization.
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