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What archaeology reveals about the rise of autocracy

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kilna

So, societies where increasingly-centralized private control (which always results in monopolization) of trade, resources, expansion profits, plantations, and enslaved labor, are the ones that become autocratic. So, basically, all the things libertarians want (commodification of everything with no collectively-demanded limits) while pretending they don't result in this.

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