> >No class could rule "economically" without the backing of a state
>- to repress dissent, enforce contracts, regulate money. I'm
>surprised you could claim to the contrary.
>
>I didn't say that they rule without the state. I said political
>power was incidental.
Repressing dissent, enforcing contracts, and regulating money are "incidental" functions? I knew Tasmania was far away, but you seem really really far away.
Doug