This is for my anthropology course. I attend a very conservative college. I must be careful comrades
Edit: every response is chatgpt folks. Guarantee no one event read my wall of text. I am safe
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If you need 150 words, just use Adam Smith’s definition of a state, it’s represents the reality that states are a governance structure designed to manage, uphold and legalize class distinction and exploitation
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all
BUT it’s Adam Smith, so you can’t be accused of being a commie, perfect camouflage
I used the definition from state and revolution 😔
Couldn’t help myself. I’m graduating and leaving the state soon anyway.
Granted, when I discussed class contradiction the example I gave was the contradiction between the landed nobility and nascent bourgeoisie (though I didn’t say bourgeoisie).
tangentially, I’m sure most here know but he also has some anti landlord stuff you can trojan to libs
Idk, smith was miles to the left of Joe Biden yet Biden got commiejacketed too.
lmao, extreme disparities in wealth. as opposed to capitalism, a system designed to create extreme disparities in wealth
Capitalism ultimately arises from and requires the state (however much it pretends otherwise), so it’s not technically wrong.
150 words isn’t enough to describe any of the bespoke Hexbear tendencies, so I think you’re safe if you just stick to the word count.
I did the wall of text thing I’m sorry 😔
Drop a link to Yellow Parenti.
I’m assuming that definition includes the currently most represented and numerous form of statehood; the capitalist state?
They’re probably thinking primarily of ur and sumer and Babylon
no my professor was actually pretty explicit in class that capitalist states were included. The example they used most often was the US when discussing the state as a concept.
The question clearly is including all modern states including capitalist ones. Y’all in the comments need to stop letting your thirst for dunks get in the way of your reading comprehension.
“All history hither to…”
Anthropology is an anarchist indoctrination program. The mainstream comes out hard against states and then the guys saying “hey maybe we need to rethink how we think about states” are dudes like Graeber lmao
You miss 100% of the Cockshotts that you don’t cite.
– Wayne Gretzky or something, I don’t know, I don’t hockey
