Communism

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Fri Jun 28 11:35:25 PDT 2002


Tahir Wood wrote:
>
> ... The state, which is an organisation
> staffed by soldiers, the police, judges and jailers charged with enforcing
> the law, is only needed in class society for in such societies there is no
> real community of interest, only class conflict.

This statement does not correspond with my experience or understanding of the world. Police, judges and jailers exist in large part to handle crimes of passion that have nothing to do with class conflict.

Paul Prescod



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