Followup to my pinned Weber / Definition of Government thread:

There's an excellent podcast examination of this here:

https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/weberonleadership

Some earlier discussion:
https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/108541676665844169

What the podcast doesn't get into is that the more modern abbreviated "monopoly on violence" form seems to originate with Murray Rothbard and was further popularised by Robert Nozick, both Libertarian philosophers / propagandists.

(I strongly hesitate to apply the word "philosopher" to Rothbard. Nozick is not entirely undeserving.)

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