It is the premise of liberal-democratic philosophy that the monopoly of violence by popular sovereignty is legitimate because, mediated by law, popular will and popular sovereignty are one and the same. But this theoretical grounding, seemingly the most secure, is inherently precarious. The criterion of law that separates the "good" state (
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isn't this exactly the line of reasoning of Bolsheviks in Russia in the beginning of XX century?
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"Truly dangerous to the legitimacy of Bolshevik Party sovereignty in the early years was resistance within the working class and revolutionary movements themselves. Examples of such resistance were multiple, and the party did not hesitate to put them down by force - thereby exposing the nonidentity between party sovereignty and popular-democratic rule."
S.B-M., p. 5.
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большевики именно с этой позиции оправдывали свое насильственное свержение царского и временного правительств.
Мандельштам писал, что власть отвратительна, как руки брадобрея.
от себя добавлю, что отвратительней власти - только оппозиция.
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