"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.

最终，我们都只是别人和我们自己讲述的故事。

过去从未消亡，它甚至从未过去。