[lbo-talk] Ralph loves the nice plutocrats

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 13:20:12 PDT 2009


Bhaskar Sunkara : I've always wondered whether the capitalist democratic state was often an agent of class conciliation instead of just direct class rule, as its portrayed in the Leninist "intrumentalist" view of the state.

^^^^^^^ CB: This was especially true after the Russian Revolution, and the threat to the Western ruling classes that the Western working classes might emulate the Marxist-Leninist led Russian working classes.



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