Mikhail’s Reviews > Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle > Status Update

'A state is, in the starkest terms, a mechanism designed to accumulate wealth in order to make war, to make war in order to protect its wealth, and to make laws to facilitate its functioning, meaning to protect its own stability. This includes the maintenance of a reasonable degree of contentment among its members. ....'