Graeber / Wengrow, quoting Philip Abrams: "the state 'is not the reality which stands behind the mask of political practice. It is itself the mask which prevents our seeing political practice as it is'" (431)
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
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