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In war every government, democratic or autocratic, crushes whatever deflects energy from victory

Drawn from what Randolph Bourne said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Randolph Bourne actually said

  1. Randolph Bourne American essayist (1886 to 1918)
    War determines its own end—victory, and government crushes out automatically all forces that deflect, or threaten to deflect, energy from the path of organization to that end. All governments will act in this way, the most democratic as well as the most autocratic.

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