If you read Gramsci like i keep keep sayin you know society is organized around 2 forces. POLITICAL society is based on force and violence. CIVIL society is organized around agreements.

Because the Polis are beating the Civis and because us civis are bad at politics and have systematically divorced force from our social lives, the political dimension has totally intruded into and utterly trod upon the civil one. Increasingly efficient means of agreement like uber and Robin Hood type tech exist at the mercy of and subject to increasingly naked aggression.

There's really 2 classes now, the ones built on agreement and the ones built on force. Red right people think the military is one but it's the other. Cops same.

Incidentally a republic only functions as a means of agreeing upon the use of your forces