But in advanced industrial society, Proudhon pointed out, the family is swallowed up by the state and the bureaucracy that supports it. Accordingly, it falls to the state to regulate the distribution of goods under the system of jurisprudence that is essential to all that the state undertakes. And consequently, the end effect of any system of distributive justice, as Proudhon viewed the situation, was that of "a SUPERIOR granting to Inferiors what is coming to each one." In a society organized according to the principle of distributive justice, the working man or woman is asked to join a huge, impersonal quasi-spiritual organization to contribute the product of his or her labor to the general store of goods that is to be passed out by the state. In forming such an association, the individual unsuspecting enters a civic entanglement that is tantamount to the binding commitment one makes when taking a religious vow. Although the act is performed in mere words, its consequences extend to the depth of the soul, coloring the entire character and personality of that individual for the rest of his or her life. For, according to Proudhon, association is a dogma which can only end in a "SYSTEM," as the utopian ideas of Fourier, Robert Owen, Cabet, Pierre Leroux, Baboeuf, and Louis Blanc ended in systems. And political systems based as they are upon dogma are not to be taken lightly. "Whoever talks of association," Proudhon argued, "necessarily implies obligation, common responsibility, fusion of rights and relation to outsiders.