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In reply to the discussion: Here's how to change the world [View all]BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)The very origins of the modern state demonstrate this: The capital class funded and directed the state to reinforce the power of the new capital class and take land that was held in custom by the people at gunpoint. It was only fairly recently with the emergence of socialism and communism which in turn informed progressivism that the state was utilized in a way that benefited the people at large and not the capital class and landholders. Now that those ideologies are essentially deceased we are resuming the business of the state as usual: Serving the interests of the capital class at gunpoint and cutting away at the services he people wanted to state to render to them.
You effectively -can't- rein them in and still have them exist as they exert a disproportionate influence, possessing the productive capacity of the civilization at least in terms of laws which are, yes, reinforced by the state at gunpoint.