/lit/ - Literature

>>18455129
Smugness

>>17605112
>We are accustomed to classifying states according to the different ways in which "the supreme power" is distributed. If one individual has it-monarchy; if all-democracy; etc. So the supreme power! Power against whom? Against the individual and his "self-will." The state practices "violence;' the individual should not do this. State be havior is an act ofviolence, and it calls its violence "legal right"; that ofthe individual, "crime." Crime, so the violence ofthe individual is called; and he overcomes state violence only through crime, when he is ofthe opinion that the state is not above him, but that he is above the state