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"Murray Bookchin argued that hierarchy is socially produced, not natural. Patriarchy, he wrote, was the first system of domination — a blueprint for later forms of class rule, racial supremacy and state power." This is an absolutely crucial point in understanding culture wars like these. Splitting groups into "superior" and "inferior" categories convinces people from an early age that hierarchy is "natural" and therefore acceptable, thus we have passivity towards state power through so-called *representative democracy" (a contradiction in terms).