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The welfare state has done emancipatory things only with a pistol at its temple

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  1. James C. Scott Political scientist and anthropologist (1936 to 2024)…
    the thing to remember about the welfare state and the emancipatory things it does is that it has only done that with the pistol at its temple.

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    ↗James C. Scott on the Perils of State Power (The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk, Persuasion transcript)persuasion.community

    c. 2021

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