Coercion

Coercion it seems like poverty and prejudice has always been with us. Political thinkers and philosophers have been arguing its more direct and personal consequences for centuries. Today at a point in history marked by dramatic changes and challenges to the existing military political and social order coercion is more at the forefront of political activity than ever before. While the modern state has no doubt freed man from some of the forms of coercion by which he has traditionally been plagued we hear now from all sectors of society complaints about systematic coerciveness-not only on the national and international levels but on the individual level as well.