Introduction
The best way I can describe my overall political ideology is paleolibertarianism or some form of traditionalist anarcho-capitalism.
The State
My views on the state are essentially in-line with mainstream anarcho-capitalism and Rothbardianism. I see the State as a monopoly on violence, with it being the only entity capable of coercion, murder, and imprisonment without repercussion. The State is a bank a robber: it siphons off a certain amount of production from society. In fact, if not a bank robber, it's our conquerer, and we're forever paying our war reparations.
But how did this state come to be? Well, as outlined in Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard, there was a time were the closest thing to the state (a porto-state of sorts) were the tribes that would loot, rape, pillage, and murder opposing tribes, leaving their adversaries with nothing. But these tribes wisened up, and figured it would be more sustainable to siphon a continuous amount of resources from these opposing, lesser tribes, instead of a one-time payout and destruction. And so, this is how the state was formed: with one "over-tribe" siphoning as much resources as possible from their "under-tribes".
From here, the State would grow. These "over-tribes" (at this point: lords) would continue their conquest of external "under-tribes" (at this point: subjects). As the lords would conquer more and more subjects: centralization was "necessary" (insofar that the state needed to survive). So, these Lords would centralize, and every functioning of the State would become more rigid, institutionalized, and organized. Thus, Absolutism was born.
Absolutism would become the norm of governance in the West, calling for a total state of one individual. Absolutism would suffer a setback that no-one could predict: the Enlightenment. Philosophers of all kinds were offering their inputs on essentially every subject. What the Absolutes didn't expect was the two components of these inputs; they were revolutionary, and they were also widespread. This movement of Enlightenment would sow the seeds for what we know today as the modern state.
And so, as time went on and "democracy" spread, the state would simply keep on growing. The modern state holds a bigger military, stricter courts, heavier taxes, more surveillance, and far more power than any of the Lords or Absolutes could ever wish for.