Date: 22 Sep 96 08:58:21 EDT
Subject: Re: the state (fwd)


Pablo
	Your English is fine.. better than my Spanish anyway.
	It's clear we don't agree about the state under communism.
	But what is most interesting about analyses is what proposals they point
to to  help tobring about theresult they want. In my opinion, the best guarantee
that oppressive power will not come back after a revolution is in the clear and
determined construction of revolution as mass action, an expericne inwhich
masses of people learn what it's like to control collectively their own lives so
that even if, say some guy came along and  wanted to oppress the majority, they
wouldn't accept it. 
	Because statements about oppression coming back normally concentrate
onthe minority looking for power, and tend to imagine the masses as passively
accepting. In this way the theories reflectthe capitalist vision of the masses.
But the most impressive thing about capitalism is how successful it is in
keeping us passive and confused. If we spat all together we'd drown the
capitalists. After a revolution, people willknow this.
John mullen
SI
FRance



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