Institutionalized violence results in centralized, elite control of economies, which entails inequality and poverty for women and powerless classes. So long as it remains legitimate for men to dream of gaining and maintaining centralized power through revolutionary or state violence, violence against individual women will remain a small matter. Putting an end to male personal, political and military violence will mean the rapid dissolution of the nation state system. The threat or use of police and military violence created and maintains almost all nation states. As the uprisings in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have shown, empires and nation states quickly begin to dissolve into smaller ethnic, religious, racial, or regional entities once that threat weakens.
Women hold diverse visions of the political, social and economic makeup of the ideal community.
Their sizes could range from a few thousand to several hundred thousand individuals. To be truly democratic, and to avoid the unfair deal-making that characterizes systems of majority rule, decisions should be made with the maximum of consensus. In this way, communities would create only rules or laws that enjoy overwhelming support. Special interest legislation would be a thing of the past. Confederations of communities, which would have strictly limited powers, also would use consensus decision-making in their assemblies of representatives.