More to the center of the argument, the proscription of abandoning 'state' for 'community' I think still airbrushes an important distinction for comparing and understanding different polities. 11/21
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Just because a work is old doesn't mean it isn't current. Arendt's dichotomy of violence and power is still a valid and quite prominent theoretical framework in the poli-sci/security studies space.
It is also, more to the point, useful. Power - the ability to create/organize collective action - is not the same as the ability to compel an action through violent or the threat of violence.
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The example I use to illustrate the distinction is a stop-light. If you run the light and are arrested by a police officer, that's violence. If you only stop at the light because there is a police officer there at the time, that is (
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But most of us stop at the stop-light even when there is no police officer. We stop at the light even when there are no cars. We've all, I suspect, sat behind 2 or 3 stopped cars behind a red light at a country intersection where there is no another soul in sight.
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