Charles Tilly’s review “State Formation as Organized Crime”
relates to Weber’s theory of rationalization in the sense that they both have a
concern for ethics and the way organizations operate.
Weber suggests that to have a constant exercise of power it requires an
organization with an administrative staff that carries out the needs and
demands to maintain itself to carry out its objectives like winning wars,
making states, protecting the state, and profiting from the state. Tilly’s view
on organized crime suggests that government and illegal organizations act
similarly, but states do it on a much larger scale that is permissible. There
is internal control and external control in government as there is in illegal
organizations like the mafia or drug rings. The internal control concentrates
on monopolizing with a central authority, and the external control comes from
war and competition which exist both in politics and organized crime for lust
of power and money. You have kings and underneath them lords that run the
state, which is identical to organized crime business models. They both deal
with immoral acts of violence and perform unethically which suits their
interests. Essentially, government is a legal form of organized crime. However,
both organized crime and government are carried out with increased
effectiveness over time in their ability to make decisions that are beneficial
to them.
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