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@@ -49,6 +49,52 @@ is separate from patriotism.
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> ~ Ocalan's "PKK and Kurdish Question in the 21st century"
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+## Defining the State
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+The state is a centralized organization that imposes and enforces rules over a
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+population through the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. In discussing
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+the rise of militarism, Ocalan says:
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+> Essentially, he attempted to establish his authority over two key groups:
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+> the hunters at his side and the women he was trying to confine to the
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+> home. Along the way, as shamans (proto-priests) and gerontocratic
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+> elements (groups of elders) joined the crafty strongman, the first
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+> hierarchical authority was formed in many societies in various forms.
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+>
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+> Section called "Society’s Militarism Problem" from "The Sociology of Freedom"
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+
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+The state is defined as:
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+
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+1. Ideological hegemony represented by the system of priests and shamans in
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+ pre-state formations. Today this is the media industry, schools, and
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+ big tech (for example "fake news" and surveillance systems).
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+2. Monopolization on the use of violence through military and police.
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+ Powerful commanders like Gilgamesh conquered neighbouring tribes, creating
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+ nascent state polities whose main business model was to hunt and enslave
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+ barbarian tribes. This enabled state to expand agricultural output
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+ which they seized through taxation.
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+3. State bureaucracy and administration represented in tribal societies and
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+ proto-states through the council of elders. This arm of the state also
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+ includes scientific research institutes, state psychology groups and various
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+ forms of manipulation including modern AI and data harvesting.
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+ This tendency is a misappropriation of scientific methods to serve power
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+ thus retarding scientific and technological development, and impoverishing
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+ society by depriving it of its great benefits.
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+
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+The state is a parasite on society, extracting value created. There are many
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+historical stateless societies such as the Medean Confederation, the Iroquiois
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+Confederation, the ninja republics of Iga and Kōga, the Swiss pre-Sonderbund
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+Confederation Helvetica, and Cossack society.
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+
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+Government is the system or people administrating a society. Although most
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+governments are nation-state ones, we can create stateless societies with
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+autonomous governments. Within free society, government is local, broadly
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+democratic and autonomous. Society is widely engaged at every level in
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+decision making through local people's councils, as well as possessing the
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+use of violence through a system of gun ownership and local militias.
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+Government also answers to a network of various interest groups from various
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+nations such as women or youth.
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+
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## Modernity and the Subject of Ideology
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**Modernity** was born in the "age of reason" and represents the overturning of
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- fostering democratic orgs, democratic culture, lifecycle of an org
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