It is well known that the Americans have been striving for 30 years to
shake off this yoke, which has become intolerable, and that in spite of
all they can do they continue to stink ever deeper in this swamp of
corruption. It is precisely in America that we see best how there takes
place this process of the state power making itself independent in
relation to society, whose mere instrument it was originally intended to
be. Here there exists no dynasty, no nobility, no standing army, beyond
the few men keeping watch on the Indians, no bureaucracy with permanent
posts or the right to pensions. and nevertheless we find here two great
gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the
state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most
corrupt ends -- and the nation is powerless against these two great
cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality
exploit and plunder it.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/civ-war-intro.htm
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