the state
On Jul 12, 2006, at 5:34 PM, JBrown72073@cs.com wrote:
And how do you propose to dissolve those boundaries–with the
bourgeoisie in control of the state apparatus and armed to the teeth? Flowers in
the guns? They don’t take kindly to even small suggestions for
redistribution, you know.
This is what’s really hard. How can you have an effective political
movement that doesn’t ossify into something authoritarian? How can
you reconcile a decentralized, democratic structure with getting
anything done? Listening to greens makes me feel like a Leninist, and
listening to Leninists makes me feel like an anarchist. The Bolshies
won their revo because the Russian bourgeoisie had fallen apart.
Short of a piece of luck like that, what do you do? And though I
catch hell every time I say this, just what have the Zapatistas, with
their nonstatist concept of revolution, actually accomplished? It’s
enough to make one want to retire to a life of aesthetic contemplation.
Doug