Hibiscus_Syrup wrote
Deleuze and Guattari's take on the emergence of the state is pretty cool because it's based in anarchistic metaphysics, lends well to an anti-civ paradigm while challenging simplistic ideas of hunter-gatherer societies, and takes all of the stuff that is kinda interesting about Marx's work on how capitalism emerged and writes it from an anti-authoritarian perspective, and spends a decent amount of time expanding on Pierre Clastres (a solid and notable anarchist anthropologist)'s really important work on counter-state societies, expanding on it in a way that makes it even more anarchist.
The plateau called "Apparatus of Capture" is probably the best starting point for that, if you're engaged with his work.
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