Apr 06, 2008 - Camped at Rockhound State Park, Deming NM
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Night camp
Site 27, Rockhound State Park, Deming, New Mexico
A Theory of the State
States have a peculiar dual character. They are at the same time forms of institutionalized raiding or extortion, and utopian projects. The first certainly reflects the way states are actually experienced, by any communities that retain some degree of autonomy; the second however is how they tend to appear in the written record.
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber, pg 65