Minimally, the State is a professional system of social coercion -- not merely a system of social administration as it is still naively regarded by the public and by many political theorists. The word professional should be emphasised as much as the word coercion. . . . It is only when coercion is institutionalised into a professional, systematic and organised form of social control -- that is, when people are plucked out of their everyday lives in a community and expected not only to administer it but to do so with the backing of a monopoly of violence -- that we can properly speak of a State. -Murray Bookchin
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:42:50 +0000
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