From: michael a. lebowitz (mlebowit@SFU.CA)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 22:04:18 EST
At 08:44 01/01/2005, jerry wrote:
>http://marxists.org/archive/mandel/1980/xx/hismatstate.htm
>
>
>Ernest Mandel's "Historical Materialism and the Capitalist State",
>1980, has been translated by Jurriaan and is now available for
>the *first time in English* at the MIA (Marxists Internet Archive).
>
>
>Excerpt:
>"Every attempt to deduce the character and essence of the capitalist
>state directly from the categories of Marx's _Capital_ -- whether
>from 'capital in general', from the exchange and commercial relations
>at the surface of bourgeois society, or from the conditions of the
>valorization of capital -- overlooks that this state, as an institution
>separated from society and transformed into an autonomous apparatus,
>was not created by the bourgeoisie itself."
>
A very quick comment in between trips:
Really? Is that how we are to understand 'the character and
essence of the capitalist state'? According to the conditions of its
'becoming'--- ie., its historical origins?
yours for a red new year,
michael
>In solidarity, Jerry
Michael A. Lebowitz
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