Are you sure you do not have that backwards? One could argue that in practice in many democracies politicians, executives of 'the state', seem to exist at the p

Are you sure you do not have that backwards? One could argue that in practice in many democracies politicians, executives of 'the state', seem to exist at the pleasure of the corporations that fund their election. The idea that 'the state' and 'corporations' are two fully separate entities is an oversimplification that is so far from reality that it is an unuseful model for reasoning.