• emergencyfood
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    1 year ago

    Agreed. The state can be a force for good or for harm. In the worst cases, the state can even act as an arm of those in power.

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      1 year ago

      Well, ultimately the state is the structure of greatest power, and power functions above all else to reproduce itself despite whatever harm it may inflict on the disempowered. Therefore, the power of the state, and the remainder of society, who are disempowered by the state, have mutually antagonistic interests.

      The powerful outside the state, by their power, have more power over the state, and therefore the state is never neutral, but rather an organ of empowerment for the powerful.

      Ultimately oligarchy produces the state and the state produces oligarchy. They are one in the same, as a class, the oligarchs, the rulership, the owners, the corporations, the shareholders, the landlords, the politicians, the bosses, the fat cats, the bourgeoisie, are all the same as a class.

      The base of the population may seek to utilize the state toward its own interests, but can never benefit from the occurrence of the state, only struggle against it.

      The disempowered as class may only gain power by abolishing power.

      Power protects itself, not the disempowered.