States are no different than warlords. Both seek to dominate, where the only difference is that the former maintains a false air of legitimacy by claiming the monopoly of violence, while the other's violence has not yet appropriated that perverse right. The so-called “general benevolence of democracy” (De Waal, 2017) consequently reflects a testament to the need to placate a population so that it does not revolt against the status quo.

Property is the mother of famine