Small Note on State and Sociability

On the topic of Anarchism and Abuses of Power

Liberals, and I suppose most statists in a sense, have this notion that abuses of power and the oppression of people by people comes when power is unregulated, when power is "naked", ala "Fascists are the only true anarchists", however I believe this to be particularly untrue. It tends to fall into the hobbesian notion, that man is the wolf of man and we need a state to regulate power in order to stop predation. However, this ignores how abuse is produced not in lawlessness or in asociality, but in society, as a product of the established hierarchies and institutions that rule society. It is these rules of conduct and identity that not only produces the conditions and contexts in which these abuses occur, but also it is that societal structure and culture that produces in the subject a desire to participate in these forms of oppression. Fascists are not the true anarchists, because fascism is society made absolute through the state, and it is society, and the state, which produce the conditions that lead to abuse. It is not that the man is the wolf of man, but that man isn't anything, and it is society that produces wolves, it does not inhibit the wolf, it is the wolf, we live in a wolf society. There's no such thing as non-naked power, all relations are mediated by power, and it is this power being mediated through a system of production that ends up being catalyzed into abuse. We are made to believe, through the apparatus of state propaganda, that "evil" is anti-social, that it is sociality that defends us from being harmed by other humans, that without society and the state we would all abuse each other. But this misses that abuse is happening now, not outside society but in society, as a direct product of the conditions established and defended by society, and in order to maintain and regulate the relations that society has established. Pro-sociality is not the measure by which people can live in peace with one another, it is the measure of how much someone upkeeps the system of sociality and participates in its mechanisms, which are abusive. Anti-Sociality, Egoism, Anarchism, cannot be understood as a rejection of fraternity, but as a rejection of the imposition of social structures, and in that way it becomes a rather protective and "kind" form of organization, as opposed to society.