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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 28 17:51:37 PDT 2009


On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:31 PM, SA wrote:


> The state must always enforce capitalist property laws? What if "the
> state" decides it likes non-capitalist laws better?

A revolutionary state could decide that. But given capitalist domination of the campaign finance and lobbying systems, control of the media, and the pervasive "common sense" of the bourgeois order, it's not likely to depart from capitalist laws any time soon.



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