organized crime will always fail when it does not understand itself to be a nascent governmental structure challenging the established one for the violence monopoly, which can lead to thinking that the two can coexist from this we see what we call successful organized crime
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Replying to @chaosprime
dunno, you can see low-key coexistence along these lines being pretty stable in the right milieu I think "monopoly on violence" is a confused concept; needn't be a monopoly, relevant actors must merely accept the violence as de facto legitimate
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i.e. you could have multiple "government-style" "legitimate" violent actors in a space, so long as they've got a modus vivendi
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yeah, maybe you're right, maybe not every judicial actor has to have the totalizing impulse that seems to characterize so many of them
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hypothesis: totalizing impulse is the result of new or functionally-new institutions in a still-chaotic environment; hasn't had the time to settle down and achieve harmony with surroundings
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low trust -> high need for control checks out
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