European states consolidated power through monopolizing violence and administration.
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- The nation-state was the body politic of emancipated European peasant classes (similarity 0.85)
- Consolidated Western civil society blocks the Russian-style seizure of state power. (similarity 0.84)
- State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.82)
- European states pass irrational laws from the imagined Muslim woman Trojan horse threat. (similarity 0.82)
- The liberal state, defined by economic individualism, generates monopoly concentration on its own. (similarity 0.82)
- European plutocrats tried to reconcile anachronistic demographics with ultra-modern production. (similarity 0.81)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.81)
- Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.81)
- France’s early mercantilist state created a bureaucracy that long outlived its productive purpose. (similarity 0.80)
- Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.80)
- Conquest by a nation-state provokes national consciousness and blocks empire building (similarity 0.80)
- Totalitarian dictatorship rules its own country like a foreign conqueror (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian state power may stem from its monopoly of violence (similarity 0.80)
- Central political initiative operates far better inside a state than internationally (similarity 0.79)