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According to Worshiping Power, we need to stop thinking of the State as a potential vehicle for emancipation. From its origins, the State has never been anything other than a tool to accumulate power. This inno-vative and partisan study of human social complexity cuts through in-adequate theories of early state formation to uncover social practices and institutions that have stifled egalitarian forms of self-organization throughout history. Just as importantly, it shows that the difficulties and consequences of state formation are not relegated to prehistory. Despite a ubiquity that renders them almost invisible today, states are constantly trying to augment their power, and all are closer to the brink of collapse than they would like to let on. nPeter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is the author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works. n n nTable of Contents nIntroduction nI. Take Me to Your Leader:: The Politics of Alien Invasion nII. Ze Germans: A State-Making Technology nIII. Save Me from Yourself: The Statist Spread of Salvation Religions nIV. Sleeper States and Imperial Imaginaries: Authoritys Afterlife and Reincarnation nV. The Modern State: A Revolutionary Hybrid nVI. Zomia: A Topography of Positionality nVII. Chiefdoms and Megacommunities: On the Stability of Non-State Hierarchies nVIII. They Aint Got No Class: Surpluses and the State nIX. All in the Family: Kinship and Statehood nX. Building the Walls Higher: From Raiding to Warfare nXI. Staff and Sun: A New Symbolic Order nXII. A Foragers Mecca: Dreams of Power nXIII. From Clastres to Cairo to Kobane: Learning from States nBibliography nIndex nn
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