What is the state?
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2019-05-18

The state is the organization or institution that has a monopoly on force, or, depending how you see it, a monopoly on crime. Watch me dissect the state and the ruling class by looking at its origins in slavery, what it does, including propaganda, and why it has power over us.

References in order:

Porter: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/927542.War_and_the_Rise_of_the_State

Gandhi: https://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap26.htm

Weber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_as_a_Vocation

Nock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Enemy,_the_State

D'Amato: https://c4ss.org/content/10003

Bacevich: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7720138-washington-rules

Oppenheimer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Oppenheimer#Der_Staat_(The_State)

Bourne: https://www.panarchy.org/bourne/state.1918.html

Tilly: https://www.jesusradicals.com/uploads/2/6/3/8/26388433/warmaking.pdf

Bernays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)

Mencken: https://www.panarchy.org/mencken/contratsocial.html