The State as a Gamete

Abstract

The state is a system of rules, a regulator — machinery that administers our social needs and which is maintained by us. Without people, the state is nothing; but the person without a state is everything. Only individuals can provide what the state is supposed to guarantee us. The idea of the state is basically parasitic. The state cannot become an individual, but the individual can become a state — s/he becomes a citizen and therefore a legal subject, i.e. a component of the collective.