[lbo-talk] Big rise in cannabis factories

[wrobert at uci.edu]

Doug, I'm glad you stick to the easy questions.  This has certainly been a
central question within Marxist theory for some time.  Marx once playfully
referred to the government as nothing but, "the executive committee of the
bourgeoisie."  The question since then has been, what the hell does that
mean?  I'm somewhat sympathetic with Poulanza's (sic) argument, which
takes the analogy seriously and argues that there is both an attempt on
the part of most bourgeois governments to act as a mediating force for
'capital as a whole' (a claim for hegemony) and a set of institutions that
develop and have interests of its own (as executive committees frequently
have.)  I'd be curious as to folks thoughts on this.  (I know this is a
very crude explanation of P's theories, and maybe I will find my own
reading of it laughable once I return to his work for my lists...  robert
wood
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> Some questions for your answers, which I'm sure you'll handle
> gracefully: how and where does this "capitalist point of view" get
> formed, and how is it turned into state policy?
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> Doug
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