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In this conference Gelderloos says something about kinship organization pre-state vs territorial organization under the state.
Something about status of charismatic figures sometimes dying with the person, but then other times it confers status to family.
Also some pre-state societies consider all their members to be family to some extent and state does not like that.
In order to enslave a whole group, people have to be conceptualized as foreigners/distant others. The closeness in family relations would ostensibly impede that. In western/westernized modern cultures family is more nuclear and less extended, less words to make distinction for different kinds of family members. The focus is on merit and meritocracy and interchangeability and independence of everyone as roles or delegates or whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZN2if_uy5g