Worshiping Power

An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

Nonfiction, History, Civilization, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Political Science
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Author: Peter Gelderloos ISBN: 9781849352659
Publisher: AK Press Publication: February 13, 2017
Imprint: AK Press Language: English
Author: Peter Gelderloos
ISBN: 9781849352659
Publisher: AK Press
Publication: February 13, 2017
Imprint: AK Press
Language: English
Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo.

Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos’s partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social institution whose contemporary ubiquity renders it almost invisible.

Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works .
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Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo.

Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos’s partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social institution whose contemporary ubiquity renders it almost invisible.

Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works .

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