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The Monopoly of Violence

It's legal to use those weapons,so there's no problem

It's legal to use those weapons,
so there's no problem

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It's legal to use those weapons, so there's no problem.
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00:11:21
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May 29, 2025
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A group of citizens question and confront their views on the social order, and the legitimacy of the use of violent police force.
I'm not shocked that the state needs the monopoly on violence. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
I'm not shocked that the state needs the monopoly on vi...
It's a condition of democracy. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's a condition of democracy.
It's a condition of shared well-being. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's a condition of shared well-being.
It's a condition of a modern republic. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
It's a condition of a modern republic.
What makes democ-tatorship, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:15
What makes democ-tatorship,
What's at stake here is that the legal violence of the police - The Monopoly of Violence 00:15
What's at stake here is that the legal violence of the ...
Those illegitimacies have been piling up for decades. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
Those illegitimacies have been piling up for decades.
There have been a few rare moments in history - The Monopoly of Violence 00:21
There have been a few rare moments in history
That is to say we're united - The Monopoly of Violence 00:14
That is to say we're united
So if we accept that, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:08
So if we accept that,
We confuse the state and the police because the police is national. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
We confuse the state and the police because the police is na...
In most other countries it isn't national. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
In most other countries it isn't national.
So in France, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
So in France,
It's an error of interpretation both historically and geographically. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:06
It's an error of interpretation both historically and g...
In France, the police became the national police - The Monopoly of Violence 00:10
In France, the police became the national police
It's a reinterpretation of the history of the local police. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's a reinterpretation of the history of the local pol...
What we might call a republican police - The Monopoly of Violence 00:08
What we might call a republican police
The police force is clearly becoming increasingly politicized. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:06
The police force is clearly becoming increasingly politicize...
But I don't think the police should serve the state. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
But I don't think the police should serve the state.
We must disconnect the police from the authority of the state. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:06
We must disconnect the police from the authority of the stat...