• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    It requires organized violence, which is easily facilitated by a centralized state, but I don’t think the centralized state is necessary per-se.

    I will definitely agree that it tends to centralize power over time, but I suspect this is true of all higherarchical systems of organization. Those with power will try to accumulate more.

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      21 hours ago

      Since power tends to centralize over time, a stateless capitalism which would be free of any regulation would pretty much always form a state in the end.

      You need the monopoly on violence for capitalism to continue.