Re: the state
On Jul 13, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
For the statist, things like wage distribution, ownership,
industrial progress, and democratic participation seem to be most
valued. The Zapatistas want to create a space in which none of
these standard measurments are applicable. To my mind, this space
they are producing is, or at least can be, much more effective at
fighting off the commodity form and capital’s international
division of labor.
Well count me a statist then, because I think those things are very
important. This alternative sounds like some prelapsarian fantasy of
hermetic, static self-sufficiency. Led by a former academic who’s
read Gramsci and Derrida, of course.
Doug