WRT social relations vs resources: I've been struggling to wrap my head around these kinds of notions. Any pointers?

FWIW, I'm currently reading The Dawn of Everything (Graeber, Wengrow). Here's a characteristic pullout, from Ch 10 "Why the State has no Origin: The Humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy, and politics":

"Just as access to violence, information and charisma defines the very possibilities of social domination, so the modern state is defined as a combination of sovereignty, bureaucracy and a competitive political field."

As with Graeber's prior efforts, I feel like he's rewiring my brain, by exposing all these assumptions and presumptions I never knew I had. (a la Does a fish know about water?)

Keeping in this theme, my next book is Mine: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Heller, Salzman).