Solon’s law compelled citizens to take sides as enemies during civil strife

Evidence

Agamben recently commented on the constitutive dimension of stasis by recalling the extraordinary law attributed to Solon that required “all citizens, on penalty of being stripped of their citizenship, to take side in times of stasis,” to become enemies (I quote here from Kalimtzis’s summary of Aristotle on stasis. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1008

Categorization

• CANDY: A law requiring citizens to pick a side in civil conflict or lose citizenship is a striking, tweetable nugget.
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone working on civil war theory or Schmittian friend-enemy distinctions.