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"According to Scott, Mafia-style protection rackets compelled people to produce grain."

James Scott—an anarchist—lays the point bare: the state functions much like an aged, institutionalized mafia. A stationary bandit, not fundamentally different from the predatory groups it claims to suppress.

parent Findeton 11 months ago

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