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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43860876
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people need to wake the fuck up and acknowledge nazi germany 2.0 aka amerikkka
but they won’t. that’s unhappy thoughts, so they’ll just ignore it and go business as usual .
i’m so fucking glad i never had kids
This would actually be Amerikkka 3.0. The US was the blueprint for much of Germany’s policies and actions. Eugenics, US policy. Concentration camps, US inspired. The corporations that built the Nazi infrastructure and was protected against US bombing in Germany were US companies.
The state is just an institution of violence-control.
Inflicting violence and restricting others’ access to violence is literally all it does. Everything from zoning laws to welfare serves that sole purpose.
This is 101 of political sciences at the uni.
That is literally the function of the state and it’s definitely not unique to capitalism or America. A state is a mechanism for controlling the application of violence, laws are threats of violence used to create a society. In an ideal government, the state would only wield violence to fairly help maintain the overall safety and justice of its constituents and would have mechanisms of control to make sure the minimum possible violence is used for the best and most just purposes. Violence outside of that would be potentially dangerous vigilantism. America IN ABSOLUTE THEORY is set up like that (or at least meant to appear like that), in practice it has always fallen varying degrees of extremely short of that, but it exists nonetheless to provide some attempt at control to completely unregulated might makes right use of violence.
In an ideal government, the state would only wield violence to fairly help maintain the overall safety and justice of its constituents and would have mechanisms of control to make sure the minimum possible violence is used for the best and most just purposes.
My favorite Karl Marx quote:
“freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it.”
A state that is completely subordinate to society would still have a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, but society itself would decide how the state exercises that monopoly.
Violence outside of that would be potentially dangerous vigilantism.
Maybe the best description of US foreign policy I’ve ever seen.
Precisely yes
