The code of law was is partially to protect person and property from violence and theft, partly it is degenerated to suit the robber gangs. Adam Smith, in his studies into the wealth of nations, explained (for me it was him) how the sovereigns in Europe amassed wealth from their citizens by theft, basically to cement the domination structure which they were on the top of. After that it is clear to me that the modern governments do the same, but with leaving just as much freedom as the citizens will not give up, while still robbing most of it for the same purpose. The wealth is doled out to the supporters of the state to preserve it. In stead of one man on the top, now it is a less static elite. Much resources goes to hide how the state works, to degrade the citizens, and to hide the fact that the state can only function as long as the people give away their own sovereignty and money. This is done with lies, threats, violence and a bit of bread and circus.

You can clearly not change this overnight without a plan to replace the functions that the state has now monopolized. But just a new plan with maybe some other people in charge of it, is no progress. A gradual change could be possible. That means less state. Currently, the states all over the world expands their volume, monoplolizing more and more functions. A specially negative development, maybe due to technology, is the state's spying on its citizens, and the power that is misused through the payment systems, and the destructive central planning of the production structure through money and credit expansion and the low interest rate policy.

A practical goal is to stop making it worse, and reintroduce markets where possible.