Anthropology. What is the function of primitive war? To assure the permanence of dispersion, of the parceling out, of the atomization of groups. Primitive war is the work of a centrifugal logic, of a logic of separation which expresses itself from time to time in armed conflict... Now what is the legal power that embraces all differences in order to suppress them, which only supports itself precisely to abolish the logic of the multiple in order to substitute for it the opposite logic of unification? What is the other name of the One that refuses in essence primitive society? It is the State.