Disassembly Required. Geoff Mann

of capitalist rule.25 For the power of liberalism to work as this account suggests, capital cannot entirely dominate and coordinate the state. The exercise of capitalist hegemony via the state must have some degree of popular legitimacy; the state must also hear the workers and the rest of the population. This would appear to be a reasonable characterization of the history of many states in Europe and the Americas where democracy appeared.