Taking Weber’s definition of the state as ‘the exercise of a monopoly of legitimate violence over a given territory’
the black-and-white film about the French suburban intifada, portraying senseless juvenile violence, police brutality and social exclusion in the Paris suburbs
Within the diegetic space of Sherlock Holmes stories
forgot the meaning
a catastrophe which is a ‘suicide’ (the result of immanent antagonisms) appears as the work of a criminal agent – Jews, traitors or reactionaries.
The Stalinist purges of high party echelons relied on this fundamental betrayal: the accused were effectively guilty insofar as they, as the members of the new nomenklatura, betrayed the Revolution.
