The movie “The Report” sheds light on what Poulantzas called “Power Centers” and others call the “Deep State”

The movie "The Report" puts on full display what Nicos Poulantzas calls “power centers,” which operate within the state with a degree of autonomy. The movie shows how Daniel Jones a staff member of the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein uncovered the “enhanced interrogation” (euphemism for torture) program of the CIA in black sites involving a minimum of 119 cases of detainees. The CIA intentionally held back key information from then President George W. Bush and members of his cabinet and used illegal means to sabotage the senate committee’s investigation. Poulantzas’ concept of “power centers” represent what today is referred to as the “deep state.” But Poulantzas was a Marxist and did not view power centers as “subjects,” but rather as expressions (he used the term “condensations”) of class forces. This is quite different from the notion derived from Max Webber of the “bureaucracy” as an entirely separate and independent entity with its own interests. The power that the CIA wielded in this case demonstrates once again that it’s not enough for a leftist party favoring far-reaching change to gain control of the executive and legislative branches through electoral means. A more thoroughgoing shakeup of the state is necessary and that’s not going to happen by negotiations or manipulations from above.   

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/11/we-tortured-some-folks-the-reports-daniel-jones-on-the-ongoing-fight-to-hold-the-cia-accountable/