Re: [Pen-l] Charles Tilly

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect quoted:
> In 1985, [Tilly] gave early indications of his argument that war made states in an article that said nation states, with their monopolies on violence, function like gangsters' protection rackets. He said that governments emphasize, create and stimulate external threats, then ask their citizens to pay for defense.

> "Consider the definition of a racketeer as someone who creates a threat and then charges for its reduction," he wrote in a chapter of "Bringing the State Back In" (Cambridge), which was edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol.<

this is a version of the Marxian theory of the state (and the Weberian
one, too). I hope Tilly gave credit where credit was due.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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