Government is Incomplete Conquest
... of all subjects needs the cooperation of at least those holding the guns and those managing the gun-holders. Foundations of legitimacy have varied greatly across the many kinds of regimes that have existed throughout history. Foundations of legitimacy ... ... often transmuted into heroes and benefactors. I have in mind, not only the knights in shining armor. Consider the American Robber Barons who became America's great philanthropists (Josephson, 1962). In Russia, the former Komsomol apparatchik,...
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