state of mind

[joanna bujes]

At 11:19 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, Dennis Redmond wrote:
>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.

No, you get others to do it for you. Prisons filled with millions help too.


>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.

Free education? Have you walked into a public school lately?
Housing subsidies.....say what?
Taxing the rich....you're trying to be funny?
Trade union rights....which the state handed to the workers willingly?
Guaranteed vacations.... like the 22 million people in the US who don't get 
a single hour of paid vaction off, ever?

Perplexed,

Joanna