Max Weber, citing Leon Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk, bluntly stated that “every state is founded on violence.” The imaginative theories that have been at times employed to justify the state violence do not fall under the scope of this article. What is analyzed here is the orderly way in which the state elites have jointly prepared the ground to dominate individuals in the fourth technological revolution.
Law
and War
Pursuant
to the standard definition of
German sociologist Max
Weber in “Politics
as a Vocation” (1918), the state is “a human community that
(successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force
within a given territory.” In other words, a state is nothing more than a
narrow group of people (i.e., the government) who manage to exert violence
on larger groups (i.e., the subjects) in a certain place (i.e.,
the territory).
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