Poulantzas disagreed with this because he saw the capitalist class as too focused on its individual short-term profit, rather than on maintaining the class's power as a whole, to simply exercise the whole of state power in its own interest.
Poulantzas var uenig med dette, efter som han anså kapitalistklassen for at være for mere optaget af sin individuelle kortsigtede sikring af profit frem for af at opretholde klassens magt for at kunne styre staten i sin interesse uden videre.