1 thought on “NATIONAL SECURITY STATE: “The State Fears Its Own People” / Noam Chomsky”

1. The whole notion of an organized political community, a “state”, is inherently about protection. We give up certain liberties in exchange for organized protection and security. So the state, in the pursuit of protecting its polity, believes it should first protect itself. It’s just the nature of the political state. For some great insights into the nature of statehood and its need to collect information, read James C. Scott’s “Seeing Like a State.” Anarchists have long believed that any highly organized political state will tend toward domination and eventually oppression. That’s why they fail to cheer revolutions that seek to simply supplant a state based on one political philosophy with another…they will all err in the end.

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