Why do we need a crooked mafia run spineless, feckless puppet government to lead us as a rule?
We don’t need them, they need us. There are various schools of thought how to overcome. I happen to believe Marxism is the only legitimate way to go despite the bad wrap it gets. I’m also genuinely surprised so many self proclaimed “truth seekers” and “free spirits” refuse to look further on this point than the mainstream propaganda (socialism can’t work, it goes against human nature, look what happened in Russia(like this system is so great) and so on) they seem to accept and repeat unquestioned. ‘The classic Marxist definition of the state as an instrument of class rule, consisting “not merely of armed men but also of material adjuncts, prisons, and institutions of coercion of all kinds” (Engels), is even truer today than it was a century ago. The state is not, as reformists habitually assert, a neutral arbiter of social conflict. Its very existence testifies to the fact that society is split into irreconcilably antagonistic classes. The bourgeois state is an instrument that upholds
