What's the Role of the State in a Democracy?

In vienna, one question that comes to mind is what role they saw state violence and coercion playing in their vision of a democratic freemarket. They witnessed the state crushing socialist workers in vienna; how did they invision repression in their national and global orders? I should say first that it wasn't often theorized, right? It was terrible what the occupying powers did in places like africa and south asia. But bringing these countries into the world market has actually made it better for the populations of those countries in the long run. Net the practice of imperialism sort of nets out better than than its deficits,. which is primitive accumulation its not pretty, but somebody's got to do