Full Idea
The interests of the ruling classes demand that an even more compact governmental minority crystallise from their midst, small enough to agree between themselves to organise their group and the forces of the state, for the estates and against the people.
Gist of Idea
The ruling classes produce a small group, to organise state power and exploit the people
Source
Mikhail Bakunin (Science and the Urgent Revolutionary Task [1870], p.129)
A Reaction
This just states the obvious fact about any government, but Bakunin sees a different motivation in the process. An organised crime group would similarly produce a small group to run it. But then so would a monastery, or a bunch of saints.
Book Reference
'The Anarchists', ed/tr. Horowitz,Irving L. [Dell 1964], p.129
Related Idea
Idea 24429 A state can only exist as a conspiracy for exploiting working people [Bakunin]