What is the value of the State?

[\0xDynamite]

>> This seems like a lame question, but What is the value of the State?
>
> Centralisation of power.

You can have a socialist state without centralization.

> A sense of safety/security for sheeple.

But the state also makes insecurity:  bigger wars, for example.

>> Without a State, would we have electronics?  Radio? Computers?  Mass
>> Transit?  Bikes?
>
> Yes. Absolutely yes.

How does anarchy provide the high-level of organization needed to
produce a car?  From ore, to smelting steel, to engineering, to
molding, to paints, batteries, upholstery and textiles, etc?

Marxos