Law and Crime

We are accustomed to classify States according to the different ways in which "the supreme might" is distributed. If an individual has it -- monarchy; if all have it -- democracy; etc. Supreme might then! Might against whom? Against the individual and his "self-will." The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The State's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime." Crime, then -- so the individual's violence is called; and only by crime does he overcome the State's violence when he thinks that the State is not above him, but he is above the State.