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

[Marv Gandall]

Ha! Ultimately if required, but the ideological engineering of consent is
aimed at thwarting the need for repression and, as we've discovered, can be
extraordinary effective. For so long, that is, as capitalism has not
"exhausted it's historic possibilities" and keeps expanding - most recently
to China and elsewhere on the periphery of the advanced capitalist
countries - and continues to provide a rising or, at least, a stable
standard of living. Marc Faber, in common with other celebrity investors and
analysts, has predicted the collapse of the global capitalist system within
five years, most recently on MSNBC a couple of days ago. Of course,
conservatives like Faber are raising alarums about hyperinflation because
they want to rein in the stimulus and cut social spending, and perhaps
trying to make a few bucks on the side shorting the US markets and buying
gold. But who knows? Maybe the crisis will finally prove the system has
exhausted itself and will implode. A century and a half after Marx, "we'll
see" has replaced "inevitable" as the watchword on the left.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Claxton" <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The State (Was: Ralph loves the nice plutocrats)


> At 02:36 PM 9/28/2009, SA wrote:
>
>>>So when we say the function of the capitalist state is to reproduce the
>>>capitalist system,
>
>>What is the actual mechanism that ensures the operation of this law at all
>>times?
>
>
> They are numerous no?  Here's one:
>
> http://blogs.newamericamedia.org/images/392.jpg
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