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@jon Sure, many states have been completely gutted in terms of competence and capacity thanks to long-term strategies of capital extraction and privatization. I would still maintain that this is, in fact, a bad state of affairs that should be fixed, either through nationalizations or the simple expedient of building up state capacity from the ground up, but again, the specific method is going to depend on the particular material conditions that prevail in the place you're talking about.