A Preface to the Theoretical Foundations of Anti-State

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This article intends to point out that the acquisition of power on part of human has not been met only through his ongoing predisposition to authority and the establishment of the state, but he seeks, by nature, to destroy the surrounding and dominant authority of alien and non-alien states as well. The human nature is not merely manifested in the building of states; but also human effort is concentrated on the abolition of states. To investigate the possibility of anti-state is another effort to come in terms with the other ways of political unity among those groups of humans that do not tend to be subjected to the city-state. This article aims to explain the separation of states’ political interests from the internal and external identities seeking to destroy them. On this ground, the future of world order is not merely subject to the existing states and sovereignties, but it will depend on the threats that anti-states pose to the states.Anti-state, by nature, lacks a history as clear as that of the concept of state and historical concept of state; but it has played a part throughout history along with the state authority and has resisted its manifestations either secretly or openly. Hence, any historical study of state hinges on the historical discovery of its antithesis which has existed in a variety of periods and in a multitude of ways both implicitly and explicitly. At our time, the phenomenon of September 11th signifies the rise of anti-state vis-à-vis the global authority and dominance of a single superpower, i.e. the United States.

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