By Akracia – Fenikso Nigra
They say the State exists to guarantee rights, maintain order, and protect society. But a quick look around is enough to notice an uncomfortable truth: this protection has never reached everyone in the same way. The State was not born to defend ordinary people—it was built to shield property, secure contracts, and sustain a specific economic model.
When life and profit come into conflict, the decision is already made. Laws, courts, and repressive forces mobilize with impressive speed to defend assets. Meanwhile, basic needs—housing, food, rest—continue to be treated as conditional concessions. Property and accumulation, on the other hand, remain untouchable.
The State presents itself as an impartial judge, but it operates as a permanent manager of inequality. It preserves the concentration of wealth, maintains the dependence of those who must sell their labor to survive, and turns exploitation into a legal, predictable, and manageable routine.
Taxes, subsidies, public debt, and economic policy are not neutral technical instruments. They are recurring political choices, always tilted toward the same interests. When the market collapses, public resources appear without hesitation. When people collapse, speeches about merit, effort, and individual responsibility emerge.
The police do not protect life in the abstract—they protect the existing order. The justice system does not pursue a universal ideal—it ensures stability for business and continuity for hierarchies. The State does not correct the distortions of the economy; it manages them so they never threaten those at the top.
Asking whom the State really serves dismantles the central fiction of institutional politics. It is not guided by the common good, because the common good was never its criterion. Its function is to keep standing a structure in which a few decide and many adapt.
The State is not a deviation from the economic system—it is its organized arm, its armed guarantee, its legal justification.
As long as we accept the State as an indispensable mediator, we will continue to accept that our lives are subordinated to the logic of profit, productivity, and obedience. Questioning the State also means questioning the economy it protects. There is no neutrality when power chooses its side every day.
In struggle, we are dignified and free people!
