States that promote violence must escalate coercion to maintain rule
Evidence
The greater the violence states promote in everyday life, the more they have to resort to threatened or explicit violence as the mode of rule. And the more violence becomes a norm, the readier those within and without the state are loosened if not licensed to resort to forms of personalized and anonymous violence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 68
Related
- Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power (similarity 0.85)
- State-mandated violence enjoys popular support when framed as common-good (similarity 0.84)
- States resisting economic control become targets of invasive violence. (similarity 0.82)
- State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.82)
- State power fuses hegemonic consent with coercive enforcement (similarity 0.81)
- Civilizing modernization enables the state’s licensed violence (similarity 0.80)
- Late nineteenth-century racial rule became rule through law rather than raw force (similarity 0.79)
- State expansion paradoxically reduces effective control and increases reliance on violence (similarity 0.79)
- Wilful effort is required to produce the appearance of subjectless violence. (similarity 0.79)
- Modern destructive capacity makes understanding intergroup aggression a survival imperative (similarity 0.79)
- Civility veils rather than ends sanctioned state violence (similarity 0.79)
- Anomalous state violence hides in plain view and becomes routine institutional practice. (similarity 0.79)
- Civilization is the project of rendering violence invisible and virtual (similarity 0.79)
- Racial regimes differ in whether coercion is overt or ideological. (similarity 0.79)
- Race remains a routine, current shaper of modern state violence (similarity 0.78)