Well, not sure I could give you an exhaustive description of what 'pro-state' means to me, but actively defending its existance and utilisation towards what I'd call a... non-minimalist goal (such as welfare programs), so to speak, would certainly qualify.

I (philosophically) do not support the existance of the state, as it is ethically unjustified. **That said,** I think that a form of coercion in the rough shape of a state is sadly inevitable, at least in the close-to-mid future. What I'd defend is absolute decentralization — keep states as small and local as possible. If coordination is needed, it should follow a confederal model.

Thanks to this decentralization we could experiment in the areas of governance, so you'd be able to have welfare city-states and absolutely minarchistic city-states side by side.