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

[Marv Gandall]

"Somebody" wrote:
>
> Obeidi describes in length how the Libyan regime worked to socialize and
> education the population in the state ideology, which was a melange of
> Marxism, Pan-Arabism, and Islamism. How inculcating the Green Book into
> the minds of the workers is supposed to buttress emerging capitalism is
> difficult to fathom. The fallacy is that any non-Marxist state pursuing
> national development is necessarily bourgeois.
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Then perhaps you view the social forces and social relations in Libya as
"feudal".  If not, how would you describe them?

Related question: what about Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, which don't even
incorporate a modern ideology like "Marxism" in their Islamic curricula? Are
these essentially "feudal" or "capitalist" states?

Capitalist development in a long process, presided over by states which
assume many forms, mostly autocratic - a diversified, industrial,
predominantly urban economy and a liberal democratic political system
appearing only a very advanced stage. Moreover, these states, even the least
developed, can't be viewed in isolation from the global capitalist economy
in which they are today all implicated and whose laws they are obliged to
follow.