Subject: [HAB:] Dialectic of Empowerment & Tutelage [Ali]
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:49:07 +0000


Ali,

You may have overlooked JH's emphasis in _TCA_ (juridification thesis) and 
_BFN_ (dialectic of empowerment and tutelage). This demonstrates his equal 
handed approach to the state. Sure, on the one hand the state "snatches" and 
on the other hand it "provides".

>3) Habermas’ conception of state is negative in this sense. I do not find 
>in Habermas any conception of state in which it is conceived as positively 
>sustaining a particular life. Please correct me if I have misread Habermas.

The state, anyway, is just one interlocking component in the dominant 
collusion of interests that rule the roost in advanced capitalist 
democracies. Mills' military/industrial/political elite theory still holds a 
lot of water as far as I am concerned.

After all who buys the most armaments off the U.S and Europe: Israel and the 
Saudis. Great. Little surprise the roadmap to peace turned out to be a dead 
end. The world is an evil place my friend :-).

Best Regards,

MattP

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