[lbo-talk] Chavez: slow down

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Mar 3 17:17:10 PST 2008


Robert Wrubel wrote:
>
> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> "Whether the
> state will in fact disappear in the future cannot be known or even
> intelligently debated, but _the_ concept of the stateless society
> is an essential tool for understanding the present."
>
> Would you same the same of the concept of a classless society?

No and Yes. A classless society seems to me a necessary survival mechanism for the human species, and it seems quite practicable to me _if_ achieved. In that sense it is not as speculative as is the disappearnnce of the state. But it is as essential as a stateless society as a perspective on the present.

I'm being laconic because I can see the screen only with difficulty.

Carrol



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