Re: executive committee

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  >*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
>
> There is no real difference between Marx and Lenin on the theory of the
> state.

See! There it is again!

Marx was a democrat. Some of you may have known Lenin, Lenin may be a
friend of some of yours, but he ain't no democrat.


Brad