• Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    Authority as indirect or direct force (essentially the engels) argument is the only logical way of definition authority, as the hexbear post argues using the example of the armed mugger. The definition of authority as blind obedience (as defined by the anarchist) is completely flawed in that it doesn’t account for the source of the blind obidelience and isn’t easy to measure.

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      In addition to not making sense from a historical development or material analysis perspective