"for almost all of human history, one has been dealing with a quite different state whose objective was to extract as much wealth, grain, taxes, and manpower from the population as possible"

Sure, but it is pretty dumb to stop there without asking why exactly states needed to do that. The unaddressed answer being, any state that didn't do that would be (and was) destroyed and subsumed by other states that did. That's why the world has not actually ever had anarchy zones that endured more than briefly since the days of hunting and gathering. Anarchism deserves nothing more than a Bronx cheer, it is stupidity induced by romantic fantasy.