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No problem TheMza! Glad I could help
The state is neither holy nor base. It just is. The function of the state as an organ of the government in any society is relative to the nature of class struggle within it. So it can only exist in relation to the class antagonisms that necessitate its existence, as if you look at the history of human civilization, you see that the state comes into being only at that point where productive methods have developed enough to facilitate the creation of a surplus and by extension facilitate the divergence of humans into different social roles and labor division. These are the conditions that split humans into classes and create the need for a state.
So in short, where there are multiple classes there is class antagonism and therefore a state to harbor the interests of the ruling class.
The purest expression of class interest is the conquest of political power (the wielding of state power).
