If the state guaranteed any social rights it was because of worker actions or the imminent threat of such actions.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Joanna: "Interesting to note that the more dictatorial power the state claims, the more it loses legitimacy."
[WS:] Which is very unfortunate, because it only strengthens the neoliberal assault on the state. People seem to forget that the only thing that kept them insulated from working 16 hours a day in sweatshops with no benefits, protections, rights or guarantees of any kind was the state. I can understand that libertarians espouse such views, after all, scratch a libertarian find a Repug, but lefties? But then, most of the so called radical left today is of petite bourgeois provenance and sensibilities, hence the appeal of neoliberal anti-statism and anti-institutionalism in general.
Wojtek
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:31 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Interesting to note that the more dictatorial power the state claims, the
> more it loses legitimacy.
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > The last three words make nonsense of this.
> >
> > The threat does NOT come from "the right" ; the threat comes from Obama,
> > Clinton, et al.
> >
> > A focus on the "right" relegates the writer to the ranks of the mere
> > onlooker in the bleachers.
> >
> > Carrol
>
> It's a reading error. R E I C H means state in German I think. It was
> supposed to indicate the US justice system has thrown out traditional law
> and turned to dictatorial power. And I agree the threat comes from the
> Obama
> administration. They want that kind of power and have done their best to
> keep it in place. So has Congress.
>
> CG
>
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