In a society with equally distributed power of violence you wouldn’t have laws, but mere loose agreements. It is the monopoly on violence that gives one the authority to impose laws.
mostly this is a joke about the phrase “true communism has never been tried”: “true law”, a state that fully enforces and abides by the law, has never been tried
In a society with equally distributed power of violence you wouldn’t have laws, but mere loose agreements. It is the monopoly on violence that gives one the authority to impose laws.
given the way real world “monopolies” on violence work, i would contend that true law has never existed
What do you mean by “true law”?
mostly this is a joke about the phrase “true communism has never been tried”: “true law”, a state that fully enforces and abides by the law, has never been tried