- 23 Jul 2018 16:50
#14934929
Sounds like an economist talking outside his field. The bolded part pretty well defines a political community. Great example of making a distinction without a difference.
ingliz wrote:Why do you worship a state by proxy ie. An association through which you can exercise power?
The state is an institution through which individuals and groups seek to exercise power.... Though a state may be a political community, it need not be. Yet it must always be an association: a collectivity with a structure of authority and a capacity for agency.
Chandran Kukathas, A Definition of the State Department of Government, London School of Economics
Sounds like an economist talking outside his field. The bolded part pretty well defines a political community. Great example of making a distinction without a difference.
I dream of the United Citystates of Earth, where each Citystate has a standardized border such as one whole degree of Latitude by one whole degree of Longitude.