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A means of protection is some contract or guarantee of security for body
Body

With regard to organism, a body is the integral physical material of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death....
 or property
Property

Property is any physical or virtual entity that is ownership by an individual or jointly by a group of individuals. An owner of property has the right to consumption, sell, Renting, mortgage, transfer and exchange his or her property....
. It is usually achieved, in a modern state
State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
 society, by agreeing to some social contract
Social contract

Social contract describes a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people form nations and maintain social order. The notion of the social contract implies that the people give up some rights to a government or other authority in order to receive or maintain social order....
 including a monopoly on violence, e.g. placing police
Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
 and military
Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
 powers under the control of an authority obeying some predictable theory of civics
Civics

Civics is the study of citizenship and government with particular attention given to the role of citizens? as opposed to external factors? in the operation and oversight of government....
 that guarantees such protection.

This term is particularly relevant to anarchism
Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing anarchist schools of thought which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable....
 and minarchy, where no monopoly on violence may exist, or where it may not have powers to intervene in all situations, e.g.






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A means of protection is some contract or guarantee of security for body
Body

With regard to organism, a body is the integral physical material of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death....
 or property
Property

Property is any physical or virtual entity that is ownership by an individual or jointly by a group of individuals. An owner of property has the right to consumption, sell, Renting, mortgage, transfer and exchange his or her property....
. It is usually achieved, in a modern state
State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
 society, by agreeing to some social contract
Social contract

Social contract describes a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people form nations and maintain social order. The notion of the social contract implies that the people give up some rights to a government or other authority in order to receive or maintain social order....
 including a monopoly on violence, e.g. placing police
Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
 and military
Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
 powers under the control of an authority obeying some predictable theory of civics
Civics

Civics is the study of citizenship and government with particular attention given to the role of citizens? as opposed to external factors? in the operation and oversight of government....
 that guarantees such protection.

This term is particularly relevant to anarchism
Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing anarchist schools of thought which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable....
 and minarchy, where no monopoly on violence may exist, or where it may not have powers to intervene in all situations, e.g. it may protect body but take no position as to 'property'.

A means of protection is particularly important when considering a means of production
Means of production

Means of production , include machines, tools, plant and equipment, infrastructure, and so on: "all those things with the aid of which man acts upon the subject of labor, and transforms it." ....
, infrastructural capital
Infrastructural capital

Infrastructural capital refers to any physical means of production or means of protection beyond that which can be gathered or found directly in nature, i.e....
, or natural resources
Natural Resources

Natural Resources is a soul album released by Motown girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in 1970 on the Gordy label. The album is significant for the Vietnam War ballad "I Should Be Proud" and the slow jam, "Love Guess Who"....
 as a social asset. Without such means, anyone can confiscate and use the asset.

When a private party threatens harm for the specific purpose of offering some means of protection later, this is a protection racket
Protection racket

A protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a powerful entity or individual coercion other less powerful entities or individuals to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase protection services against various external threats....
 - a serious crime
Crime

Societies define Crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some Government or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.The word crime originates from the Latin crimen , from the Latin root cerno and Greek ????? = "I judge"....
 in most legal code
Legal code

A legal code is a body of law written by a governmental body, such as a U.S. state, a Canada Provinces and territories of Canada or Germany States of Germany or a municipality....
s.

See also: use value
Use value

In Karl Marx critique of political economy, any labor-product has a Value and a use value, and if it is traded as a commodity in markets, it additionally has an exchange value, most often expressed as a money-price....
, exchange value
Exchange value

In political economy and especially Marxian economics, exchange value refers to one of four major attributes of a commodity#Marxist_concept, i.e., an item or service produced for, and sold on the market....
, means of persuasion
Means of persuasion

A means of persuasion, in some theories of politics and economics, can substitute for a factor of production by providing some influence or information....