As the article mentions folks like Max Weber who saw and had to deal with these new things called "states" found them all to real. Yeah "has no origin and is a

As the article mentions folks like Max Weber who saw and had to deal with these new things called "states" found them all to real. Yeah "has no origin and is a meaningless term" is not a particularly useful position, and mostly exists because he expanded the scope of the state beyond its claimed dominion. For example, certain state attempt to demarcate themselves from individuals (aka individual liberties etc). A history of their violations of their own positions does not make their stated efforts in any way obviously invalid.