[lbo-talk] Let Practice & the State was Ron Paul...

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jan 24 05:18:05 PST 2012


Carl G.E. wrote: " Except for the seriously misleading big-government/small-government meme (it makes a big difference whether the big government is the WPA or the CIA) . .."

This is crucial for left thought and action. Many of our campaigns _favor_ more use of state power. E.g. We attack the government for its _failure_ to use its power to enforce OSHA on reluctant capitalist frims. And as I said in the earlier post, this presents a real problem:

.a) We must coalition with Anarchists .b) Anarchists have great difficulty in seeing state power as other than unadulterated evil.

This on the whole requires working out at the local level¸ but it needs to be discussed and explored in all left forums.

Carrol



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