How the State Serves Corporations

The general concept of the state is to mediate between the two classes, to prevent conflict in order to maintain stability. But when one class wields too much power and influence over another, the state simply becomes a tool of that class. Given that the rich control much of the capital and therefore power, the state usually ends up as a tool of the ruling class.

There are many examples to demonstrate this dynamic. For one, programs such as PBSUCCESS involved overthrowing democratically elected foreign governments who were buying up unused land from American companies and distributing it to the people. Even if the company was being outright nationalized, this is a right that all states have, they are sovereign over their land. Or, for example, the Iraq war, which was really just a response to Iraq abandoning the petrodollar. WMD's were made up by the CIA as a pretense. American workers killing Iraqi workers to protect oil interests at the behest of the United States government.

Domestically, the state also often intervenes on behalf of corporations. For example, Biden signing an order to force striking rail workers back to their station. Or another common occurence is when a large corporation fails, the government is often there to bail them out to 'protect jobs'. Protecting the rich under the pretense of protecting the poor. Rather than, say, nationalizing the company to protect the jobs while not letting the company getting away with it, the companies who are bailed out often cut large bonuses to their executives and cut many jobs anyway.

Nevermind the fact that politicians on both sides often directly profit from giving corporations contracts, with many congressmen having inflated stock portfolios that vastly outperform the market. Insider trading gives politicians a personal incentive to protect the interests of large corporations. When they do well, the politicians do well.

There are also many different organizations and NGOs, such as the bilderberg group, trilateral commission, and the council on foreign relations, that foster collaboration between government and corporate interests, in closed-door and off-the-record meetings. These groups often have the stated goal of aligning goals and visions, fostering collaboration, and so on between politicians and industrialists. Essentially, these are groups dedicated to preserving the state's role as a tool for corporations.

Through the mountain of evidence that is really just public knowledge, it should be plain that the people in government are directly accountable to the corporations, not the people. There are vast personal incentives for politicians, and the government has often been found protecting corporations even at the cost of the actual voters to which the state claims to be accountable to.

From all of this, it is also clear that the government cannot be trusted to protect the interests of the people. Whenever the government has to choose between voters and money, it chooses money. Reform through the government is impossible. Any reforms will be eroded over time, or the burden will be shifted to the people instead of the powerful. Instead of trying to work within the government, which is directly opposed to the people's interests by its nature, any attempt to establish a socialist state or communist society must instead come through proletarian government. Councils, established by workers, to manage affairs in parallel to the state rather than as a part of the state, to create the apparatus for when revolution becomes a necessity.