Society Against the State Quotes

“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.”
― Pierre Clastres, Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology

“La historia de los pueblos que tienen una Historia es la historia de la lucha de clases. La historia de los pueblos sin Historia es, diremos con la misma verdad, la historia de su lucha contra el Estado.”
― Pierre Clastres, Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology