you might think the state is fundamentally distinct from the "private sector" of the economy in that any real resources the former has are based on confiscation, while the latter gets cash by lure: consumption and investment based on advertising etc. well they are different. but we should point out that, as it's demonstrating in spades, the state manufactures the money that is a fundamental commodity as well as the circulating medium of the "private" economy. if the corporation can annex the monetary and confiscatory functions of the "public sector" and the state can annex the pr machinery and the profit slice of the corporate sector, then everything makes amazing sense: it's all circulating and expanding in the same system/environment. the addition of contemporary marketing strategies/companies to politics and state functions is an important development in squishy totalitarianism. or notice the inextricability of federal reserve policy from the stock market etc.