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State
A specific form of social organization with a bureaucracy, a hierarchy, constitutions, and elections that exists as a separate sphere apart from society.
The relationship between the state and the capitalist economy is an intimate one and without state intervention the capitalist economy couldn't exist. According to the Anarchist FAQ:
The relationship between the state and the capitalist economy is an intimate one and without state intervention the capitalist economy couldn't exist. According to the Anarchist FAQ:
the state intervenes in society for three basic reasons: 1.) to bolster the power of capital as a whole within society, 2.) to benefit certain sections of the capitalist class against others, and 3.) to counteract the anti-social effects of capitalism.
The modern nation-state then, arose in tandem with and mutually reinforced by the capitalist economy and continues to exist in order to maintain capitalism and its inherent inequities in power and wealth. Thus, any critique of state power must simultaneously call into question capitalism as the two cannot be disentangled from one another.
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Stanley Hauerwas talks about how American Christians read Romans 13 so as to justify American state power. This clip is from a panel discussion held in March 2007 at Duke University called Religious Speech in Public Discourse.”
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In excerpt of infamous "God Damn America" speech Rev. Jeremiah Wright, discusses the failure of governments to produce justice and freedom for the most vulnerable of society.
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Buber, Martin. “Landauer.” In Paths in Utopia, 46–57: Beacon Press, 1958.
Cavanaugh, William T. “Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation-State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good.” Modern Theology 20:2 (April, 2004): 243–74.
———.“A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House: The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State.” Modern Theology 11:4 (Oct. 1995): 397420.
———.“The Liturgies of Church and State.” Liturgy 20:1 (2005): 25–30.
Kropotkin, Peter. The State: Its Historic Role. London: Freedom Press, 1946.
Tilly, Charles. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter Evans, et al., 169–87. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Cavanaugh, William T. “Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation-State is Not the Keeper of the Common Good.” Modern Theology 20:2 (April, 2004): 243–74.
———.“A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House: The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State.” Modern Theology 11:4 (Oct. 1995): 397420.
———.“The Liturgies of Church and State.” Liturgy 20:1 (2005): 25–30.
Kropotkin, Peter. The State: Its Historic Role. London: Freedom Press, 1946.
Tilly, Charles. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter Evans, et al., 169–87. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985.