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Apparently you other brothers CAN deny human rights to women and slaves.

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BRAVO!!!

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Writing in the 1300s, Ibn Khaldun paid a lot of attention to the idea of in-group solidarity as the main phenomenon that sustains a state. He discussed geography and waterways, too, but it is interesting to think of circumscribed regions as having both the material conditions as well as the sense of being hemmed in that can create in-group solidarity.

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This seems very consistent with David graebers idea, as per the dawn of everything, that the freedom to leave a society is the most fundamental and it's absence the biggest driving force of coercive state behaviour. Apologies if that's something you've mentioned before but I was interested to see it not referenced here!

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