[lbo-talk] Blog Post. The Road Beckons: Excerpt from Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate

[Wojtek S]

Marv: "The canard, as you put it, is as valid as ever. The state is the
executive committee of the ruling class. The purpose of the executive
branch, Congress, the courts, and the regulatory agencies is to ensure the
smooth functioning of capitalist markets and to protect the power and
property of those whose income derives primarily from profits and
dividends."

[WS:] Who decides what "the purpose" of something is - some armchair
academic?  Everything in this world serves multiple purposes, depending on
who is using it.  Capital owners certainly want to use the state to the
purpose you stated, others  use it for protection, production of public
goods, income distribution, collective defense etc.   To what extent each
of these purposes is being served at the expense of other depends on the
power relations - of course - but the claim that the state serves a
singular purpose of being the executive committee of the bourgeoisie cannot
be taken seriously.  Not only that - it is counterproductive to the
interests of the working class, although it may fit the mindset of petty
bourgeois academics and self-styled anarchists.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."