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[โ€“] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

In an ideal government, the state would only wield violence to fairly help maintain the overall safety and justice of its constituents and would have mechanisms of control to make sure the minimum possible violence is used for the best and most just purposes.

My favorite Karl Marx quote:

"freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it."

A state that is completely subordinate to society would still have a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, but society itself would decide how the state exercises that monopoly.

Violence outside of that would be potentially dangerous vigilantism.

Maybe the best description of US foreign policy I've ever seen.