{"product_id":"9781849352659","title":"Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation","description":"Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorshiping Power\u003c\/i\u003e cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos’s partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social institution whose contemporary ubiquity renders it almost invisible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Gelderloos\u003c\/b\u003e is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of \u003ci\u003eHow Nonviolence Protects the State\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eConsensus\u003c\/i\u003e, and  \u003ci\u003eAnarchy Works \u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136281297136,"sku":"9781849352659","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849352659_p0.jpg?v=1763751861","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849352659","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}