{"id":911703,"date":"2022-12-08T06:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=267722"},"modified":"2022-12-08T06:58:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:58:23","slug":"what-do-we-need-a-state-for-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/08\/what-do-we-need-a-state-for-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Need\u00a0a State For, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a healthy society of non-human primates, there are no nations, no extended organizations, no supraterritorial forms that might resemble a state. Troops of primates do have a social cohesion about them, creating various temporary leaders or hierarchies according to the function at hand\u2014one for fighting, say, another for vigilance, a third for feeding\u2014 and establishing customs and groundrules of permissible behavior. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/08\/what-do-we-need-state-for-anyway\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/08\/what-do-we-need-state-for-anyway\/\">What Do We Need\u00a0a State For, Anyway?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/12\/08\/what-do-we-need-state-for-anyway\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a healthy society of non-human primates, there are no nations, no extended organizations, no supraterritorial forms that might resemble a state. Troops of primates do have a social cohesion about them, creating various temporary leaders or hierarchi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911704,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911703\/revisions\/911704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}