He points out that sometimes, in certain parts of North America, for example, this public power is weak (he has in mind a rare exception in capitalist society, and parts of North America in its pre imperialist days where the free colonist predominated), but that in general it grows stronger: 'It the public power grows stronger, however, in proportion as the class antagonisms within the state become more acute, and with the growth in size and population of the adjacent states.