As if Arbenz in Guatemala was overthrown in '54 just because the Dulles brothers owned stock and were buddy buddy w/ the head of United Fruit.
Were all those debates between instrumentalist, structuralist and StaMoCap neo-marxists in the 70's about the formation of capitalist state policy (see Kapitalistate, the Gold, Lo and E.O. Wright piece in Monthly Review circa late 70's, Bob Jessop, "The Capitalist State, etc.) just hot air that activists paid no heed to?
The left really needs to get beyond this reductionist image circa cartoons in, "The Masses, " by Robert Minor in 1915 of Kapitalist Pigs In Top Hats With Big Bellies And Cigars Jerking Us Around Marionette Strings. Michael Pugliese