direct coercion

Power is exercised not only through direct coercion, but also through the way in which language shapes and restricts our reality.

He has cooperated only under direct coercion."

The State allied with different segments of the population against the rest, all the time increasing its control, until it had funds sufficient to exercise direct coercion.

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx lays out a 10-point plan advising the redistribution of land and production, and Ludwig von Mises argues that the initial and ongoing forms of redistribution constitute direct coercion.