jårêd. on Nostr: "The State...essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its ...

"The State...essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad.

"Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.

"No primitive state known to history originated in any other manner."

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"At all places on this planet where the development of tribes has at all attained a higher form, the State grew from the subjugation of one group of men by another. Its basic justification, its raison d’être, was and is the economic exploitation of those subjugated."