Re: empire & globalization, was... Re: AUT: Re: autonomistcrisis theory

[commie zero zero <commie00@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Commie: i think the state is, a marx noted, the (and
> i'm
> paraphrasing) executive council of the ruling class.
> or some such. it is also the ruling class' military
> arm (when the class is acting, more or less, as a
> whole).
>
> Karl: The above conception of the state is too
> simplistic. It leaves out the
> whole matter of legitimisation. This conception of
> the state fails to
> explain how the state is the council of the ruling
> class when that council,
> as you call it, is not necessarily composed of
> members of the ruling class.

no, you miss the point that marx was also trying to
make: there is no such thing as a state that is not
made up of members of the ruling class. non-ruling
class people who join or create a state necessarily
become ruling class.

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