State of Mind

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Mon Oct 14 16:15:46 PDT 2002


Quoting Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com>:


> First of all, every state is at war with its own subjects to
> preserve and effect its class system.

War is different from the socialized violence of scarcity. The competition for class prestige, position, etc. is fought out in all sorts of other ways; you don't get a college degree or build an export-platform economy by shooting people. Many of the things which states do fly directly in the face of the class system - e.g. free education for all, housing subsidies for workers, taxing the rich, trade union rights, guaranteed vacations, etc.

-- Dennis

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