Skybird, property relations, in the sense of individual ownership, can only exist as long as the state does. In all stateless societies, 'property ownership', such as it exists at all, is collective. It has to be. No individual can enforce ownership alone. You have a simple choice: state + property, or no state + no property. Which would you prefer?
And don't bother quoting your favourite academic anarcho-capitalist rabble-rouser on this - the facts, as stated above, are self-evident from anthropological studies (as well as being common sense), and all the wishful thinking in the world cannot alter the fact that collective action invariably beats individualism in the long run, when it comes to who 'owns' what. You can sit on your pile of gold waving your AK-47 around all you like. You have to sleep sometime...
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