Betrand de Jouvenel defined the state as a result of conquest and the desire of a horde of bandits, to place itself above others and impose their will:
"(...) the state is in essence the result of the success Achieved by a band of brigands who superimpose themselves on small, distinct societis; tis band, which is itself organized in a society as fraternal and as full of thieves' justive as you please, behave towards the Subjected as vanquished and the Power in the pure state. (Elsewhere defined De Jouvenel this as a command to an end in itself it)
From this genesis of the state includes De Jouvenel.
"Power of this kind can make no claim to legtimacy It Pursues no just end, its one concern is the profitable exploitation of conquered subjects andsubmissive. It lives off the subject populations. " Bertrand de Jouvenel
. On PowerThe Natural History of Its Growth. Liberty Fund, p.113
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