Date: 27 Aug 96 11:42:58 EDT
Subject: Re: The State


The contributor who thinks that Marx wrote hogwash about the state has the right
to his opinion. But the question was "What is the state, where does it come from
and what is it for ? " Marx has an explanation as to why it comes into existence
and maintains itself, as "the central committee of the bourgeoisie" and as the
personification of concentrated capital, and theguarantor of the general
conditions of capitalist accumulation.
	I have seen some other theories : psychological ones (the State fulfils
our need for a father) which I consider nonsense.  But it is more honourable to
have a nonsensical theory like my Freudian friends than no theory. 
John Mullen
S.I. France
	



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