[lbo-talk] Rethinking the State

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Thu Sep 24 10:23:32 PDT 2009


On Thu, September 24, 2009 6:52 am, Chris Doss wrote:


> Those rights are only possible because of
> the state.

A properly dialectical irony, no? This is one of those seemingly minor points which conceal massive, planetary opportunities: the 21st century is the first moment in human history when most people on the planet have their own states -- or more bluntly, aren't being crushed under the Iron Heel of imperial or neo-imperial autocracies (British, French, Iberian, US, Soviet). Which is why one of the central issues of the transnational era is how to build and expand developmental states, a.k.a. economic democracy.

-- DRR



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