Former Secretary General of the Constitutional Council from 1997 to 2007 and Honorary Councilor of State, Jean-Éric Schoettl returns to the notion of the monopoly of legitimate physical force, which regularly comes up in public debate during violent clashes between black blocs. and thugs, and law enforcement.
"The police exercise violence, of course, but legitimate violence is as old as Max Weber
", had in particular justified the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin in 2020.
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FIGARO.- While Jean-Luc Mélenchon accuses the police of violence, Éric Zemmour pleaded "
the monopoly of legitimate violence
", citing Max Weber's concept.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin before him had also referred to the famous German sociologist.
What exactly did the German intellectual say?
Jean-Éric SCHOETTL
.-
With regard to Max Weber's developments on “
legitimate violence
”, we make them say too much or too little.
Too much because Weber…
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