[lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA

[Jim Devine]

it should be noted that even if "the executive of the modern state is
but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole
bourgeoisie," it need not do a very good job. The Bushwhackers seem to
be a clear example of such a bad committee.  They do a bad job not
only from the perspective of the working class and other "out" groups
but also from that of the bourgeoisie. They instead try to serve the
short-term goals of their cronies.

On 1/21/06, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Micheal Hoover replied:
>
> >>>> 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
> ----------------------------------------
> 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.
>
>
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Jim Devine

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