• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    The state is of, for, and by the bourgeoisie. The fact that a bourgeois state continued to allow the gross swelling of the bourgeoisie does not itself make the state the source of the problem. The state is a symptom of the disease.

    The state isn’t simply an instrument of evil by evil people. It’s a tool. Since people act in their own interests, those who can abuse the system to gain outsized influence over it control the tools, and wield them in their own favor.