civil society

occupation / innovator as

revolutionary

journalist

human rights activist

is a reflection of its own organizations and principles, but it is not necessarily capable of regulating and ordering itself without the state's intervention.

Kumar points to the interdependent relationship of state and civil society. He writes: Society was shown to have its own organisations, its own principles, that gave it a life independent of that conferred by grace of the sovereign. But it was not thereby except in the anarchist tradition regarded as necessarily capable of ruling and regulating itself. Indeed the stronger and more varied its structures, the more in need it seemed to be of ordering and regulation by the state. (1994:130)

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