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The State Today
The previous chapter traced the evolution of the state — the
army, courts, cops, prisons and tax collectors — from its formation
6,000 years ago. This state has consistently served the
privileged classes — first slave owners, then feudal lords and,
today, the capitalists.
The U.S. has developed one of the most extensive and brutal
states in human history. This state appropriates the meager
earnings of the working class to finance its huge armies of war
and occupation as well as killer unmanned drone bombers,
which it deploys at will to countries such as Pakistan, Yemen,
Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan; and to fund the police state and
prison system, which presently imprisons well over 2 million
people, half of whom are people of color.
Hundreds of billions more are spent on the courts that administer
this injustice, as well as domestic and international
surveillance activities operated through the FBI and the CIA.
This vast apparatus is necessary to serve and protect the
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