ARE EMPIRES DETERMINISTIC? Nick Zito: —“I’m sure you have covered this previou

ARE EMPIRES DETERMINISTIC?

Nick Zito: —“I’m sure you have covered this previously but isn’t it the case that city states will be amalgamated into empires again and again? History repeats? So whilst we live with empires today, by implementing market gov and creating 1000s of city states we will just be back on the repeat train, no?”—-

GREAT QUESTION!

We can form various forms of empires. This list is not exhaustive but the spectrum will serve as the framework for all possible answers.

1) Military denial (the empire performs no other function than to deny external conquest of any member state. [Greeks]

2) Commercial denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing weights, measures, property, contract, and dispute resolution.) [Romans]

3) Civic denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing language, rituals, traditions, myths) [Chinese and current western democratic humanism]

4) Productive Denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing production or some significant part of it) [communism/authoritarianism/soviet-chinese socialism].

5) Migratory or movement denials (the empire also performs the function of standardizing or regulating the movement of individuals) [serfdom]

6) Associative or Reproductive denial (the empire also performs the function of standardizing or regulating associations, reproduction, and family structure). [slavery]

7) Total denial (the empire also performs the function of total management of the individual independent of his choice) [chattel slavery]

8) Life denial (the extermination of all life for the purposes of obtaining a territorial monopoly on all future potential).

So civilizations can form, empires can form, but the question is which type of empires do we permit to form?

“Bibles” limit a state.