The Importance of the State in Anarchism

The state emerged quite gradually, actually changes at the level of economics. The ability to accumulate property privately and pass it down within paternal lines within families led to the development of the state over time. Changing a mode of production takes time, and the social forms of the company, including the state, will shift over time as well. So an overemphasis on the state can cause us to miss the fact that the primary question is relations of production and property, and that the state is downstream from those.