Awesome thank you for that! how did you come across the work?

"For example, according to Elon Musk in 2021, 'government is simply the biggest corporation, with a monopoly on violence and where you have no recourse'. All talk of 'legitimacy' and 'right' has been removed and replaced with a wholesale, a priori rejection of the basic premises of democracy."

“It uses words like "liberty" and "tyranny" to characterize political power in deceptive ways, relying on a willful misreading of the sociologist Max Weber …that ‘a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’"

"...it is democratic governance that cyberlibertarian dogma puts squarely in its sights. ... it closely follows the anarcho-capitalist view that all governments are inherently authoritarian, regardless of their claims or the actual appearance of democratic consent."

“It uses words like "liberty" and "tyranny" to characterize political power in deceptive ways, relying on a willful misreading of the sociologist Max Weber …that ‘a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’"

Butler ✅ Robinson ✅