In the popular culture, people usually say that St. Augustine came up with the "just war" stuff. Anybody who actually read him though, he was a lot more into de

In the popular culture, people usually say that St. Augustine came up with the "just war" stuff. Anybody who actually read him though, he was a lot more into delegitimizing state power. State power he didn't like (rather than all state power). I would put him square into the "just riot" section. "Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers?" St. Augustine.