• SparrowHawk@feddit.it
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    2 months ago

    I mean, fair, but it’s the institutions that give those people the power to enact atrocious acts with impunity, there is no genocide without an army supplied by the state and paid by capital. Large scale atrocities where always the domain of states

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      States represent the structure of a society, and enforce the rules that society agrees upon. Up to now, vast majority of societies have been built around concepts such as feudalism and capitalism, which are the underlying drivers that lead societies to enact atrocities.