What's neoabsolutism?
I'll add this:
[https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4167](https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4167)
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41925304?seq=1#page\_scan\_tab\_contents](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41925304?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)
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But only if they're replaced by another linguistic domain. Linguistic capacity as such can't collapse. Similarly, the collapse of a state would lead to the creation of or reversion to other authorities. They may be worse, but the modern theory of sovereignty does assume that the collapse of the state would lead to some kind of chaos, with no mediation between individuals always ready to commit violence against each other. So, it reduces all relations to state-individual relations in theory, and tends to do so in practice.