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However, there is some convergence of views.

Anarchists believe that any state — be it a worker's state or a bourgeois state — will inevitably be created and ruled by a political and economic elite, therefore becoming an organ of class domination.

Conversely, Marxists believe that successful class repression almost always requires a superior capacity for violence, and that all societies prior to socialism are ruled by a minority class, so that in Marxist theory any non-socialist state will possess the properties attributed to all states by anarchists and others.