Centralized coercion concentrates and magnifies its destructive capacity
Evidence
The ultimate consequence of all this is the concentration of violence. Once centralized and free from competition, means of coercion would be capable of reaching unheard of results even if not technically perfected. Their concentration, however, triggers and boosts the escalation of technical improvements, and thus the effects of concentration are further magnified. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 286
Categorization
- XREF: The concentration-of-violence mechanism pairs with Giddens on militarization and the modern state’s monopoly of coercion — connects to Weber’s definition of the state in the course’s scaffolding. — connects to: Modern civilization centralizes rather than abolishes violence — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 284; High-capacity regimes’ monopoly on coercion means their own agents dominate the violence that occurs — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 737
Related
- Modern civilization centralizes rather than abolishes violence (similarity 0.84)
- High-capacity regimes’ monopoly on coercion means their own agents dominate the violence that occurs (similarity 0.82)
- Civilization makes violence aversion irrelevant through bureaucratic complicity (similarity 0.80)
- Modern Caesarism is police-run rather than military-run (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Modern civilization centralizes rather than abolishes violence
#corroborates(0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 284