[lbo-talk] The State (Was: Ralph loves the nice plutocrats)

[Marv Gandall]

Shane writes:
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>
>> Wojtek writes:
>>>  the idea that state is by definition run by the propertied class  is 
>>> but a
>>> Left wing myth that is demonstrably false and does not even deserve  to 
>>> be
>>> called "vulgar Marxism" :)
>
>
> Your strawman.  The state (the people forming the repressive apparatus 
> needed to define and enforce laws protecting property), for marxists  and 
> in reality, is not "run" by the "[most powerful members of] the 
> propertied class" but by their *employees*.  Popular wisdom knows that 
> "he who pays the piper calls the tune." It takes a Sociologist to  imagine 
> that the piper calls his own tune.
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More folk wisdom: "Remember the golden rule: them that has the gold makes 
the rules."