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Perhaps true, but quite offtopic The POINT was that "merely performing typical state administrative functions" somehow makes them a legitimate government. Tha
by toss1 5y ago
Perhaps true, but quite offtopic
The POINT was that "merely performing typical state administrative functions" somehow makes them a legitimate government.
That is beyond absurd
Whether or not Mussollini made or failed to make the trains run on time, these administrative functions, whether performed well or poorly does not make any difference - they make them no less a criminal or despot.
EVERY warlord needs to perform some admin functions, and it does NOT in any way confer legitimacy if they do so. Mafia dons contribute to hospitals and festivals, but it does not make them less criminals.
- ncmncm 5y agoLegitimacy is not a matter of opinion. Either they control the territory and the people in it, or they don't. FARC, for example, never tried administering anything. But the Taliban has actual courts where they enforce actual written and published laws. We don't like the laws they enforce, but nobody says they are not doing it. (By all accounts, their enforcement is much less corrupt than what they supplanted.) That doesn't make it good government, but it certainly is government.