[lbo-talk] Bad Boss, no Donut

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Been reading Jared Diamond's excellent book Collapse.
Marxist but he doesn't kjnow it, probably ther best
way to be a Marxist today. Explains in sharp detail in
many cases how such executive committees and ruling
groups through the ages have fucked things up for
themselves as well as everyone else. The Bush
administration is the worst administration even from
the pov of US capitalism that this country has had
since maybe the administration of James Buchanan. 

--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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
> 
> "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or
> calling is an
> intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James
> Baldwin
> 
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