Right. In fact, a massive, intrusive socialist state can only exist if it rules over an agglomeration of severely atomized individuals, for whom even intimate family ties are subordinated to the Party and State (hence the tyrannical doctrine, propagated in certain states, of encouraging loved ones to spy on each other and act as informants). A massive, intrusive socialist state cannot exist in a highly collectivist society that is tightly organized along kinship, communal, and/or congregational lines. In such a society, any state structure would be necessarily constrained, and cannot act arbitrarily or tyrannically due to fear of retribution by those tightly organized social groups.