[p2p-research] end of the free market?

[Michel Bauwens]

yes, the things in your paragraph are very well explained in the hirst book
...

if you can find a domhoff ref, it would be most appreciated,

Michel
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/18/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the book by Paul Hirst I'm reading, on Pre-capitalist modes of
> > production, he is emphatic that the state is the 'sphere of
> representation
> > of class society', but not 'a tool of the dominant class'. It is as well
> of
> > course, but not exclusively, this is why the state can have a relative
> > independence from the corporation, depending on the relative strenght of
> > social forces,
>
> Sounds thought-provoking.  There's a large body of excellent
> contemporary Marxist literature on the various theories of the state
> (instrumentalist, autonomist, structuralist).  G. William Domhoff did
> an amazing lit review on it several years back, which I've misplaced.
>
> My own inclination is to say that the state is by nature an instrument
> of class rule, but to the extent that the range of class forces
> controlling it is always shifting, it's also a contested arena for
> class warfare.  Ruling classes are defined as ruling classes by their
> success in gaining control of the state, because economic exploitation
> requires the enforcement of artificial property rights.  In some cases
> the apparatus of the state itself, or some portion of it, becomes the
> ruling class, or the dominant "private" economic class shares power
> with the state apparatus in excercising exploitative power.
>
> --
>  Kevin Carson
> Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org
> Mutualist Blog:  Free Market Anti-Capitalism
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com
> The Homebrew Industrial Revolution:  A Low-Overhead Manifesto
> http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com
> Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
>



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