The FBI and CIA

The concept of the deep state is very politically charged and oftentimes considered a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It is most certainly a real thing. The deep state isn’t some shadowy cabal hiding in the wings, as the bourgeois media would have you believe, but a structural necessity of imperialist capitalism, a grotesque machinery that keeps the ruling class’s boot on the neck of the global proletariat. Peter Dale Scott and Aaron Good have peeled back the curtain on this beast, exposing its gears, Wall Street, Big Oil, the CIA, and the military-industrial complex but to grasp its true nature, we must root their insights in a Marxist-Leninist framework, where class struggle and the imperatives of capital reveal the deep state as the enforcer of empire’s iron rule.Scott’s concept of “deep politics” nails the hidden underbelly of power, where unelected elites financiers, spooks, and corporate titans all collude to steer the state beyond the reach of any ballot box. His work, from The Road to 9/11 to The American Deep State, maps how this network orchestrates “deep events” think JFK’s assassination, 9/11, or the Iran-Contra affair, were used to secure imperialist agendas. Aaron Good’s American Exception sharpens this, introducing the “tripartite state” the public state (the democratic facade), the security state (the Pentagon and CIA muscle), and the deep state (the elite nexus of capital and covert power). Good’s analysis, echoing Scott, shows how this trifecta ensures U.S. hegemony, crushing any threat to profit or dominance, from Vietnam to Venezuela. But if we cut through the liberal haze with Marxist-Leninist clarity, we see the deep state as a class dictatorship in disguise. Capitalism concentrates wealth and power into ever-fewer hands, creating a technocratic elite that serves capital’s endless hunger. The deep state is this elite’s armed guard, ensuring the imperialist core, led by the U.S. extracts all the surplus value from the Global South while suppressing proletarian revolt at home and abroad. This same elite engineers wars and sanctions, from Iraq to Syria, to keep the dollar supreme and the periphery plundered. The deep state, in Marxist terms, is the executive committee of the bourgeoisie, wielding state violence to protect monopoly capital. From a Marxist-Leninist lens, the deep state’s role is dialectical. It emerges from the contradiction between capitalism’s democratic pretensions and its need for authoritarian control. The ruling class can’t openly admit it governs through force, so it cloaks its power in elections and “free markets” while the deep state operates in the shadows, rigging the game. Scott’s “deep events” are moments of crisis management, where the system cracks because of rebellion or leaks, or when anti-imperialist movements threaten to expose the lies. Think of the CIA’s coups in Chile or Guatemala, or the FBI’s COINTELPRO targeting Black Panthers and socialists. These aren’t anomalies. They’re the system working as intended, preserving the dictatorship of capital against the working class. The state is an instrument of class oppression, and under imperialism, it’s global in scope. The deep state, as the covert arm, enforces this oppression beyond borders, orchestrating regime change, arming death squads, and propping up useful fascist regimes and dictators to keep the Third World in chains. Scott and Good give us the map, but Marxist-Leninist theory provides the dynamite. We must dismantle the imperialist state, not reform it, building a socialist order where power serves the working class, not the parasites of Wall Street. Peace demands justice, and justice demands revolution. The deep state’s empire of capital will crumble when the global working class rises, united, to bury it.