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Reaching the unreachables

Reaching the unreachables

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Sam Mace
Mar 27, 2023
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What is authority? It is a question that has no definitive answer, immune from certainty or fixed relations; authority is a fluid component of regimes. Despite having no ‘one’ answer, authority is vital for a regime not only to survive but to flourish. As I have written before, authoritarian regimes relying on violence are inherently unstable and are do…

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