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Ask him to connect ambition and natural selection to dissolving social structures, rather than the actual historical trend of technology and class dynamics shifting towards larger and more complex production and distribution. Ask why states appeared, and why capitalism arose when it did and how it did. Take a historical materialist stance, and elaborate on how the rise of the industrial proletariat sublimates present class society and erodes the basis of the state, class struggle, as we gradually collectivize production and distribution.
I do like this response very much (even more than the one I gave)
Got any book recommendations on the formation of states please?
I haven't actually read this one yet, but I've been meaning to read On the Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Friedrich Engels.
Thanks, I've not read it in full but it is maybe time for me to do so.
No problem, comrade!