#state-quotes [[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 428-429 how the State came into being > On the contrary, the State is established directly in a milieu of hunter-gatherers having no prior agriculture or metallurgy, and it is the State that creates agriculture, animal raising, and metallurgy; it does so first on its own soil, then imposes them upon the surrounding world. It is not the country that progressively creates the town but the town that creates the country. It is not the State that presupposes a mode of production; quite the opposite, it is the State that makes production a "mode." The last reasons for presuming a progressive development are invalidated. Like seeds in a sack: It all begins with a chance intermixing. The "state and urban revolution" may be Paleolithic, not Neolithic as Childe believed.