Part 1, Chapter 1, §17) some hundred years ago as the conceptual recapitulation
of what the state had turned out to be (or rather to become) in modern history.
I shall not enter the taxonomy of states or quasi-states having a population, but
lacking a territory, or vice versa (in the case where the potential population is still
strewn over other states). As to the monopoly, it regards not only that of military
and police force,
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since states do also own an exclusive authority in fundamen-
tal financial acts (minting currency, levying taxes) and in representing themselves
towards other states (diplomacy). To illustrate all of this, one only needs to go back
on the one hand to the rise of the European state, as it will happen below, and on
the other hand to the reconstituting of China as a state (the People’s Republic of
China, founded on 1 October 1949) implied for the victorious Communist Party
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