Re: [Pen-l] money

[Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown wrote:
> 
> From: Ann Davis
> 
> I agree with Terry's statement above. But where do we go for recent Marxian analysis of the state?
> 
> ^^^^
> 
> http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

Oh come on Charles. Yes, it's an interesting book, and like almost
_everything_ Lenin wrote (including casual private letters) it is a
model for political focus, for living the instruction of the
civil-rights song, Keep your eye on the prize.

But it is ridiculjous to cite it as a "recent marxist analysis of the
state." From that perspective it is little more than a preliminary to an
introduction to a prologomena to a marxist provisional analysis of the
state.

Carrol
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Engels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State in just two months â beginning toward the end of March 1884 and completing it by the end of May. It focuses on early human history, following the disintegration of the primitive community and the emergence of a class society based on private property. Engels looks into the origin and essence of the state, and concludes it is bound to wither away leaving a classless society. 

Engels: âAlong with [the classes] the state will inevitably fall. Society, which will reorganise production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers, will put the whole machinery of state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquity, by the side of the spinning-wheel and the bronze axe.â 

To read what Engels had to say about the State and how it came into being, try his ORIGIN.... here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/

Granted, it's not recent; but then, neither is the advent of the State.  The modern State is still the governing structure of class rule and class rule is still based on the ownership of private property in the means of production and land: capitalists and landlords rule us.  I'd suggest reading this work and then coming up with your own modern analysis of the State, as most of of the contemporary "Marxian" analyses are just derivative.  A good modern piece on Lenin's State and what was done and not done in the political revolution, he led, read Maurice Brinton's BOLSHEVIKS AND WORKERS' CONTROL.
http://libcom.org/library/the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control-solidarity-group

You can also find Hal Draper's excellent 1970 essay, THE DEATH OF THE STATE IN MARX AND ENGELS online here:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1970/xx/state.html

Mike B)

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