The modern state is often idealized as a facilitator of order, justice, and collective good. However, its historical and structural evolution reveals a more disturbing reality. While democratic institutions claim to empower individuals, their dependence on capitalist support and monopoly on ideological narratives reveals a deeper authoritarian tendency. This paper builds upon the Hobbesian Leviathan, not to advocate its necessity, but to expose its inescapable role in perpetuating systemic inequality and ideological control.
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