Re: executive committee

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Max writes: >If you think the state is the executive committee of
> the bourgeoisie, than you are a public choice theorist too.<

*Sigh*

Marx did not write in the _Manifesto_ that the state is the executive
committee of the bourgeoisie.

He wrote that the executive of the modern state is a committee for
managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie--suggesting that the
democratically-elected legislature of the modern state is something
else.

This misquotation has served the function through the twentieth
century of making Marx appear closer to Lenin than he in fact was...


Brad DeLong