[lbo-talk] Condi Rice quote

[Jim Devine]

it's common for people to say such things when the state does not have
a monopoly on power (and a civil war is raging). Thomas Hobbes said
something similar (at length) in reaction to the English Civil War.
Besides, she was probably quoting Max Weber (who in turn quoted Leon
Trotsky).

On 4/5/06, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Something about *her* saying this gives me the creeps.
>
> "You can't have in a democracy various groups with
> arms - you have to have the state with a monopoly on
> power." -- Condi Rice.
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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles