Im being hyperbolic, consider my framing of ‘billions’ to just mean ‘a country with aprox a billion+ people’
But that’s only 2 countries out of ~190. They are exceptions.
Its an anarchist strain of thought and it has a whole connation behind it with the term,
Lenin the anarchist.
he surely recongised the need to have a police force to defend the citizens of the revolution from bad actors
That’s two different things. “Police” and “a force to defend the citizens of the revolution” are two different things. That’s my whole point. In the Soviet Union you had the local militia
and then you had the NKVD.
So a “police” is a force than combines the two: “local policing” (stopping bar fights, getting drunk people off the street, investigating domestic violence) and then “state polcing” (fighting the enemies of the state). If you have one police with those wide powers, then that’s a recipe for disaster.
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