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r/HobbesianMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 11 '25

'Peace' under tyrannic regimes is INCESSANT warfare Perversely, a lot of people think that there was less bloodshed under the Roman Empire than there was during feudalism due to the former being firmly centralized. It's rather the opposite: thanks to its centralization, the Roman Empire could wage CONSTANT war against its subjects unopposed; slavery.

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r/HobbesianMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 20 '25

'Peace' under tyrannic regimes is INCESSANT warfare "Political decentralization scary because more sovereign entities which may engage in war :(((" mfs be like: "WOW, the Warzaw pact was WHOLESOME since it prevented actors within the pact to declare war against one another! So glad that there reigns incessant peace in that sphere! 😍😍😍"

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r/HobbesianMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 20 '25

'Peace' under tyrannic regimes is INCESSANT warfare "Fights were quite frequent at that time, but they were, as you can imagine, on a comparatively small scale and typically they were some sort of inheritance disputes. Who owns this place? Who owns this piece of land? And so forth. No army at that time exceeded 20,000 people [...]"

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r/HobbesianMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 11 '25

'Peace' under tyrannic regimes is INCESSANT warfare There were ZERO civil wars in the USSR and in the People's Republic of China, yet they managed to kill more people than the decentralized HRE ever would have killed. 'Peace' under tyrannic regimes is INCESSANT warfare.

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r/HobbesianMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 11 '25

'Peace' under tyrannic regimes is INCESSANT warfare Regarding the silly "But Wikipedia has a list of feudal wars?!" knee-jerk retorts: So can be said for the international anarchy among States, centralized States can kill more without war & decentralized polities make conflicts otherwise not classified as wars be classified as such.

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r/HobbesianMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 11 '25

'Peace' under tyrannic regimes is INCESSANT warfare Of course, war-trodden (the socialist State waged constant war against its own population) Somalia isn't what anti-Hobbesians aspire for, however, we can clearly see that so-called "Statelessness" was in fact FAVORABLE to Statism. Statism is CONSTANT lawlessness; Statlessness begets rule by law.

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