Editing Justification for the state (section)

=== Arguments against a State ===
[[Anarchism]] claims that the community of those fighting to create a new [[society]] must themselves constitute a [[stateless society]]. [[Communism]] wishes to immediately or eventually replace the communities, unities and divisions that things such as work, money, exchange, borders, nations, governments, police, religion, and race create with the universal community possible when these things are replaced.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://prole.info/wcpw.html |title=Prole.info |access-date=2007-05-16 |archive-date=2007-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312030837/http://prole.info/wcpw.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[State socialism]] states that the degree to which a state is working class is the degree to which it fights government, class, work, and rule. The degree to which it wins such a fight is held to be the degree to which it is communist instead of capitalist, socialist, or the state. [[Anarcho-capitalism]] argues that taxes are theft, that government and the business community complicit in governance is [[organized crime]] and is equivalent to the criminal underworld, and that defense of life and property is just another industry, which must be privatized. [[Anarcho-communism]] and [[anarcho-collectivism]] says that [[taxes]], being theft, are just [[property]], which is also theft, and that the state is inherently [[Capitalism|capitalist]] and will never result in a transition to communism, and says that those fighting against capitalism and the state to produce a communist society must themselves already form such a community. However, the majority of viewpoints agree that the existence of ''some'' kind of government is morally justified. What they disagree about is the proper role and the proper form of that government.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

There are several ways to conceive of the differences between these different political views. For example, one might ask ''in what areas'' should the government have jurisdiction, to ''what extent'' it may intervene in those areas, or even what constitutes ''intervention'' in the first place.  Some institutions can be said to exist only because the government provides the framework for their existence; for instance, [[Marxism|Marxists]] argue that the institution of [[property|private property]] only exists due to government.  The intervention debate can be framed in terms of [[big government]] versus [[small government]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}