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

[Marvin Gandall]

Yup, as we know from our own involvements with lousy committees. :) Of
course, the Bush admin has been given its orders to cut its losses in Iraq -
a very controversial "investment" to begin with - and to do something about
the fiscal and trade deficits. But these are not now easy messes for this
bumbling EC to clean up on behalf of the controlling interests.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA


> 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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