The restructuring of the state entails a vicious struggle to wrench control from the hands of competitors and maintain it in particular hands. At this time extreme control, domination and interference characterise the present stage of capitalist development, whether it is a single state which wants to control everything in its own hands or a system of states in which one or more big powers dominate the entire world.

Anarchy and violence go side by side with the drive for control; the reflection of the control by the monopolies and oligopolies. The monopolies and oligopolies settle accounts between themselves through anarchy and violence and the state takes sides in this conflict. Not only does the state strive to keep the monopoly of power in its own hands, as opposed to ensuring democratic control of the political affairs by the working people, but it also takes sides in relation to the inter-monopoly struggle within a country and internationally.

Restructuring targets the working class and overrides the rights of the peoples, while internationally all the principles are also violated.

The politics of assassination and extreme violence, such as the US and Israeli Zionists are conducting in the Middle East and the US is escalating in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically threatening Cuba, are a reflection of the anarchy and violence that prevails at the present time all over the world. Who is to be blamed for the killings taking place? Not only are those who carry out the assassinations and extreme violence to be held responsible but also those who accept the present state of affairs and contribute towards making the state extremely anti-people and partisan towards the group which has the power of the state.

The more time passes, the more unscrupulous those who are restructuring the state reveal themselves to be. This is not because they are necessarily bad characters and incapable, although that may also be the case. The main reason is that they have to control a state whose mechanisms and structures permit such things. The rich are quite happy so long as the control of the state does not fall into anyone else's hands and so long as their power is not limited in any way. They do not want to share this control of the state with anyone. It is this that drives and explains their behaviour.

Anarchy and extreme violence are inherent to this stage of capitalism, as was the case at other stages, but the economic and political power which it has in its hands today is colossal and unprecedented. It heeds no one while it pretends to be the most democratic and humanitarian. It is trumpeting its values all over the globe and threatening all those who may not agree with extreme violence.

While it is true that successive governments and leaders fail to deliver on promises they make and this is reprehensible, the main blame has to be put on the system. Anarchy and extreme violence are inherent to this stage of capitalism and the working people can only overcome such evils if they fight against all those who perpetuate them.

(Source: TML Monthly, June 2026)

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