the state

Review: State Formation and “Worshipping Power”

Posted on December 28, 2018 - Federation Tags: Review, the state, Theory

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 […]

An Anarchist View of the Class Theory of the State

Posted on July 30, 2018 - Federation Tags: the state, Theory

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 […]

The State Against Climate Change: Response to Christian Parenti

Posted on July 3, 2018 - Federation Tags: Commentary, ecology, the state

A response to Christian Parenti’s assertion that the state is the only way to meet the challenge of the climate crisis. By BRRN Radical Ecology Committee (REC) In the concluding chapter of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2012), author Christian Parenti suggests that those seeking to mitigate and adapt […]