Red Emma’s

We're psyched to welcome back longtime friend of Red Emma's Peter Gelderloos for a presentation of his new AK Press book Worshiping Power: An Anarchist Vision of Early State Formation. Have you ever wondered where states (and here we mean the political construct, not the geographical one!) come from, and how they developed initially? In this new book, Peter looks at the ways that states - and The State - co-evolve with different models of the family, religion, warfare, commerce, and economic production over a lengthy period of time, and finds that state formation is a constant process, with certain patterns but without any single motor or dialectic. It is also a completely reversible process, as many societies have destroyed their states once it became clear how oppressive they were. If you are interested in better understanding where the State came from, to better understand how to dismantle it, this talk is for you! Don't miss it, and tell your friends!