the state

Review: State Formation and “Worshipping Power”

By Wayne Price Review of Peter Gelderloos, “Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation” by AK Press It it important for anarchism to have a theory of the state, the fundamentals of government, its origins and development. This is my third essay on this topic, the first being a presentation of the class […]

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An Anarchist View of the Class Theory of the State

A Libertarian Socialist Defense of the Class Theory of the State By Wayne Price In order to understand government politics, it is necessary to have a theory of the state. This essay reviews classical anarchist and Marxist views of the class-based, pro-capitalist, nature of the state. But there are also non-class and non-capitalist influences on […]

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