THE ANATOMY OF STATE-SPONSORED MALIGNANCY

How do social harms become instruments of political and economic power?

THE ANATOMY OF STATE-SPONSORED MALIGNANCY: A METASTASIS OF POWER presents a critical materialist examination of how social division, deprivation, and coercion can serve institutional survival and the concentration of capital. It connects public authority and private accumulation through political mechanisms that shape who benefits from policy, who bears its costs, and how institutions resist accountability.

Across its chapters, the book examines racism, discrimination, poverty, exploitation, surveillance, propaganda, corruption, policing, colonialism, war, and inequality, alongside less familiar mechanisms such as algorithmic manipulation, regressive extraction, and manufactured apathy. Rather than treating social suffering as a collection of isolated failures, it offers a structural framework for considering how power is maintained and resources are concentrated.

A detailed table of contents guides readers through the book’s broad range of subjects, from fear and scapegoating to lawfare, surveillance capitalism, and environmental fraud. This guide is for adults interested in political economy, social structures, and the ways institutions influence everyday life. It invites careful scrutiny of the systems behind public harms—and of the interests those systems may protect.