[lbo-talk] The State

[Alan Rudy]

I keep waiting for SOMEONE, ANYONE, to reference - and for others to respond
directly to - something ANYTHING written about the state since 1945... Yeah,
sure, Marx is important but, uh, to say that this whole discussion has gone
on and on and on with only ever so few even moderately contemporary
references is pretty silly.
I proposed - more than a week ago? - that, perhaps, Baran and Sweezy,
Habermas and O'Connor might have something to contribute... has anyone read
and taken Monopoly Capital seriously? Legitimation Crisis? Fiscal Crisis of
the State?  Or are these folks apostate rather than classical Marxists (and
yes, I know, H and O'C see the world differently, if more similarly than
Baran and Sweezey did.)
Our once-Polish colleague has raised Skocpal a few times, and someone else
raised Poulantzas once or twice, but no one's even taken THEM up... come on
y'all it seems to me we can do better than these repeated
pissing-off-a-bridge competitions.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:53 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


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> Chris Doss:
> I think the point was to address the question, "do states in
> capitalist societies sometimes act consciously against the interests
> of both domestic and foreign capitalists?" The answer appears to be
> "yes," with the conclusion to be drawn that the Marxist notion that
> the state in a capitalist society is merely the tool of the capitalist
> class is false.
>
> ^^^^
> CB: Which Marxist has said that the state in a capitalist society is
> "merely the tool of the capitalist class ?"
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