Thanks to Frieda Werden, Havana Guard and David Rovics, and also the beloved one
The nation state, is maintained by force and violence, whether carried out by monarchs, presidents, or parliaments, and their cops, courts and armies. laws and customs vary among nations, or are even contested within nations, but what all these nations have in common is a the use of official force to maintain social
relationships of unequal power and unequal access to the means for living. Ironically these institutions of force are rationalized as crime prevention, justofied to control human nature which is portrayed as selfish and brutal and prone to cutthroat competition. But do they rather not create a culture of callousness
and competition through the hierachies they enforce?
