Clastre
They had self-consciously organized in such a way that the forms of arbitrary power and domination we associate with ‘advanced political systems’ could never possibly emerge.
he proposed that, rather than being less politically self-conscious than people nowadays, people in stateless societies might actually have been considerably more so.
They were calculating politicians forced to manoeuvre in a social environment apparently designed to ensure they could never exercise real political power. In the winter, the groups they led were tiny and inconsequential.
