Istvan Meszaros

For the task of qualitative restructuring just mentioned is conceivable only through the activation of the great masses of the people—that is, all of society’s given and potential producers—for taking full control over the reproductive determinations of their society, from the elementary constitutive cells of the thereby constituted socialist system to the most comprehensive feasible global interdependencies of the highest complexity.

However, the undeniable reality is that the nation-states fight each other either directly or in their proxy wars. They adopt the modality of proxy wars in openly pursued direct confrontations of the world’s dominant powers, for example, the United States and Russia, in which the danger would be the total
destruction of the warring countries as well as the rest of humanity.

For the unpalatable truth is that there cannot be a state of the capital system as a whole, because the state can only be the structurally entrenched and hierarchically dominant Leviathan state in confrontation not only with its own subordinate social class, but also with some other Leviathan state.