The only rationale the state has ever had for existing was that it could provide its members with greater security than was possible if they were to remain in fragmented societies. States have now demonstrated under a variety of regimes types - democratic, socialist, authoritarian, totalitarian, etc. - that they fall far short of meeting this demand. The current appearance of ethnic and ethnic-nationalistic movements all over the world reflect the human beings' return the individual's identity with a primordial social relation - ancestry - to create or recreate organizations to do the job left undone by the state.
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