Thesis on Marx

Everything begins with arms. Even the ownership of the means of production requires the material means to enforce such ownership. And this enforcement dependts on the relations that spring from the distribution of the means of coersion. The accumulation of the means of production is absolutely spurious if it is not backed by the appropriate means of coersion. The form of government emerges out of the social relations produced by the distribution of the means of coersion available in a society. In politics it is of little relevance who is rich and who is poor, but who wields the weapons. Even if we acknowledge that the means of coersion are produced in the realm of the economic, the one that ultimately controls, holds and wields them is the one who is politically dominant.