----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Robert Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org>
> Sometimes reification is quite real. There are states in the world which
> are quite decent, especially in the EU, but the US Federal state is not
> democratically elected, it's run by two equally corrupt parties, guarded
> by impenetrable phalanxes of lobbyists, consultants, and related vermin,
> and its foreign policies have bombed, blasted, impoverished,
> neoliberalized, and otherwise made life a living hell for billions of
> Third World citizens.
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Agree as I was pointing more to the historical dynamics whereby that which is reified actually settled into 'itself as itself.' How it *became* what it is - Madison + Gramsci - in order to get a handle on the current dynamics of becoming. In that sense the USA is not acting acting against Iraq etc., certain factions of the capitalist class have seized the 'sedimented structures' of 'the state' and are attemtping to jam their ontology [of death] down everyone else's throats.
> But the might of the EU and East Asia is real and growing and that's a
> reason to hope with the head and not just the heart. Put another way,
even
> the most rabid anti-Americanism is all too American; we need new and
> creative post-Americanisms.
>
> -- DRR
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And on that score Poulantzas is of far greater help right now than Lenin, imo.
Ian