email: [email protected] ** fedi: https://zoinks.one/vidak ** In this paper I will argue that the widespread defence of the capitalist state in its social contractarian form has been misguided,and misled about the actuality of the modern capitalist nation-state. Where liberals in the tradition of Kant, Locke, and Hobbes take the actuality of the capitalist state to be a liberal democratic state, this defence of the state will be shown to be first, misled, and, second, misguided.