Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation is a book that explores the history of the state, capitalism, confederations and chiefdoms from an anarchist perspective.
== Summary ==
=== I. Take Me to Your Leader: The Politics of Alien Invasion ===
=== II. Ze Germans: A State-Making Technology ===
=== III. Save Me from Yourself: The Statist Spread of Salvation Religions ===
=== IV. Sleeper States and Imperial Imaginaries: Authority's Afterlife and Reincarnation ===
=== V. The Modern State: A Revolutionary Hybrid ===
=== VI. Zomia: A Topography of Positionality ===
=== VII. Chiefdoms and Megacommunities: On the Stability of Non-State Hierarchies ===
The notion of a 'chiefdom' and the evolution of a society from a band to a tribe to a chiefdom and to a state is explored. With the argument being put forth that this evolution is not inevitable and that chiefdoms are surprisingly better at responding to crises and that they do not necessarily 'evolve' into states, existing as chiefdoms for thousands of years over millions of people. The examples of the Haudenosaunee, the Powhatan, the Hunnic Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Uighurs, the Turks, the Benin Megacommunity and Ancient Athens are all used as examples of possible chiefdoms throughout history. The Bronze Age Collapse is discussed, with an explanation of possible anti-state rebellions, comparing it to a modern string of anti-state rebellions since 2008, notably the Arab Spring.
=== VIII. They Ain't Got No Class: Surpluses and the State ===
=== IX. All in the Family: Kinship and Statehood ===
=== X. Building the Walls Higher: From Raiding to Warfare ===
=== XI. Staff and Sun: A New Symbolic Order ===
=== XII. A Forager's Mecca: Dreams of Power ===
=== XIII. From Clastres to Cairo to Kobane: Learning from States ===