The Vikings let people go out and raid other villages but drew the line at murdering your neighbor. It that what you’re going on about? You think any one who wants should be able to have their own army?
What exactly do you mean? Monopolization? Superstructure? Violence? Where do I need to start? At the definition of a state?
My critique is as follows: Violence is currently monopolized by a hierarchical system of command & control - the state. I (and I’m presuming: OP as well) question the legitimacy of the state and its’ monopoly of violence.
I would prefer it if the necessary amount of violence would be controlled by horizontal power structures.
All societies use some form of violence to control people.
Even the Amish ‘shun’ the malefactors.
I’ve seen evidence that Amish parents hit their children with wooden spoons.
But not all societies monopolize violence in an institutional superstructure.
What does that even mean?
The Vikings let people go out and raid other villages but drew the line at murdering your neighbor. It that what you’re going on about? You think any one who wants should be able to have their own army?
What exactly do you mean? Monopolization? Superstructure? Violence? Where do I need to start? At the definition of a state?
My critique is as follows: Violence is currently monopolized by a hierarchical system of command & control - the state. I (and I’m presuming: OP as well) question the legitimacy of the state and its’ monopoly of violence.
I would prefer it if the necessary amount of violence would be controlled by horizontal power structures.