After reading the 'Politics as a Vocation'
Max Weber
I choose to select this this passage "'Every state is founded on force,' said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk. That
is indeed right. If no social institutions existed which knew the use of
violence, then the concept of 'state' would be eliminated, and a
condition would emerge that could be designated as 'anarchy,' in the
specific sense of this word. Of course, force is certainly not the
normal or the only means of the state--nobody says that--but force is a
means specific to the state. Today the relation between the state and
violence is an especially intimate one. In the past, the most varied
institutions--beginning with the sib--have known the use of physical
force as quite normal. Today, however, we have to say that a state is a
human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force
within a given territory. Note that 'territory' is one of the
characteristics of the state. Specifically, at the present time, the
right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to
individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state
is considered the sole source of the 'right' to use violence. Hence,
'politics' for us means striving to share power or striving to influence
the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a
state."
This paragraph essentially positions that
any political organization or state has remained instigated by violent force.
If not then it isn't state but Anarchy and nothing officially makes this
connection but it goes without question that it is part of the requirements. In
addition Weber states that the present state was very accustomed with violence
since extremists were rioting and states were creating militias to fight
against each other and that now the state has full authority to use violence as
long as the state authorize it and politics are used to fight over the rights
to use violence as they see fit. This passage caught my thought because the use
of violence is rarely shown as part of a State’s plan or agenda for example
during the colonization’s that Spain, England and later America had. America
also saw it fit to allow the imperialistic force that they believed was necessary
.The torturing, burning, and hanging of anyone who wasn't white during the
civil war and all these acts were allowed by each state. I also significantly
thought a lot of the bourgeoisie and the oligarchy of a government towards the
people of a state. The democracy of any state is an oligarchy. Including ours of
this state now. Nazism is a form of Fascists’, racists oligarchy while
imperialism by force fuels the bubble.
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