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⌈ Secret Post #6277 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

What makes empires inherently bad?

[(Anonymous)]

Violent conquest? Repression of subject peoples? Economic exploitation and theft by the imperial metropole?

[(Anonymous)]

Is it foregone that those things will always happen, or that what the empire brings is worse than what came before? For example, was the violence and chaos of the warring states periods of China and Japan preferable to China and Japan's imperial periods?

[(Anonymous)]

Is it foregone that those things will always happen

I think if none of those three things exists, it's hard to see how the state could properly be called an empire. It's sort of definitional.

or that what the empire brings is worse than what came before?

Obviously there's a million hypotheticals you can come up with. And saying that empires are bad doesn't mean that they're the worst possible arrangement. It just means they're bad.

For example, was the violence and chaos of the warring states periods of China and Japan preferable to China and Japan's imperial periods?

I don't know (genuinely don't know - I haven't studied the periods in depth). But I feel pretty confident that the empires were not the best possible way to organize those societies all things being equal. And probably not the best way even accounting what was available given the social, economic, cultural, and material conditions.