"It protection rackets represent organized crime at its smoothest, then war risking and state making – quintessential protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy – qualify as our largest examples of organized crime."
— Statism

January 1, 1970

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Charles Tilly, “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime,” published in Bringing the State Back In, edit., Peter Evans, Dietrich, Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1985) p. 169