• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Without the state, use of force secures land claims, and corporations would be more than happy to release the hounds on the rest of us.

    A democratic state is a collection of people, mostly workers, that forces the distribution of wealth and ideally equal rights in a court of law and protection of public lands.

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      2 days ago

      You just described capitalism, with a fully privatized state. Much like the system in the US…