>>>> marvgandall at videotron.ca 01/20/06 11:31 AM >>>
> As I understand it, that you need a state to referee conflicts between
> competing capitalist interests and to provide the class as a whole with
> the
> profit-maximizing resources it can't or won't provide for itself, needs
> typically expressed through its trade and political organizations.
> <<<<<>>>>>
>
> who/what comprises above 'committee'... mh
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Those with decision-making power within the various state institutions -
legislature, regulatory agencies, executive arm, etc. If the decision-makers
aren't responsive to the needs of the corporate lobbies on all important
issues they're asked to resign from the "committee". The corporations have
formidable economic, political, and mass communications resources to enforce
their will. You hint at a problem with the concept. What are your
reservations, if any, about it? It's a functional view of the state, not a
conspiratorial one.