• Shayeta@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    In a society with equally distributed power of violence you wouldn’t have laws, but mere loose agreements. It is the monopoly on violence that gives one the authority to impose laws.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      given the way real world “monopolies” on violence work, i would contend that true law has never existed

        • Match!!@pawb.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          mostly this is a joke about the phrase “true communism has never been tried”: “true law”, a state that fully enforces and abides by the law, has never been tried

    • 反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      2 days ago

      Laws which are used to oppress the poor, and not the colonists extracting wealth from other nations.

      Your statist propaganda machine worked so well, that you have people confusing anti oppression tools with oppression tools. Hurrah for European Neoliberalism, Hurrah!

      • Shayeta@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        What? Laws are whatever those in power make them. Oppressive vs anti-oppressive is a matter of perspective. Oppressive is what oppresses my side, anti-oppressive is what oppresses the opposing side.

        Sure, any society will eventually degrade into the owning class squeezing the working class dry, and society as a whole has short memory leading to cycles of bloody oppression and bloody revolution.