Domination has become more sophisticated than it used to be, and that has made it also more comprehensive. The empire of capital cannot be fought by the same methods that worked against earlier imperial projects. Conventional strategies are simply ineffective at liberating nations from the modern system of control and subjugation. Indeed, they tend to undermine the struggle for independence.
Previously, the top of the imperial pyramid consisted of the emperor and his court. Today it is comprised of shareholders and their corporate boards of directors.
Yes, the instruments of state power are elements in the new imperial system, but dismantling them (if it is possible to do so) will not free you from that system.