Hi, This was posted on my YOUTUBE channel be another De Leonist "We have to ask ourselves: What is the state? Marx said that it was the _executive committee_...
I have come to the conclusion that the Marxist-De Leonist definition of the "state" is poorly defined, because it tries to say too many separate things...
... definition ... with ... and ... phrase "scientific ... but ... Well, Marx's definition was pretty much the enforcement of one class' interests over...
... Yes, I believe you're right, that is, right about who said what. As for myself, I don't believe in asserting that there will be improvements to human...
This is the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States that was suggested by David Searles of Vermont, in its most recently revised form as of...
I don't necessarily consider myself a DeLeonist, but I have long been interested in political theory. My politics place me on the left of American society,...
De Leonists see a big problem with the tendency of the IWW, syndicalists, and anarcho-syndicalists to say that is't all right to ignore the state and abandon...
... system 'Government over people' meaning? Representative democracy like today, in which people are elected, and can then do whatever they want pretty much?...
"That approach could also be suicidal, and I, for one, believe that the ignore-the-state seize-the-industries method would end up with millions of workers...
... Yes, it would be representative democracy like today in which people are elected. It is separate from the economic government of the SIU but the SIU holds...
Damned good question. I can only respond to the deleonism side of it - Noam will have to flesh out his own side of it, or perhaps you could if you are that...
This is a corrected and expanded verison of my immediately preceedng post: Damned good question. I can only respond to the deleonism side of it - Noam will...
... When I said government over people, I didn't intend it as a contrast with government _OF_ the people, and I didn't spend even a moment thinking about what...
... Why? ... it ... or ... Wait, why the Constitution? Surely you've seen the problems caused by the interpretation of the Constitution in terms of things that...
... people are elected. ... Because people in the U.S. expect political representation when it comes to their rights. They want those rights protected from...
jt: The political side just can't do what it wants. It is limited to safeguarding civil liberties, rights and making sure law enforcement, courts and prisons...
Thank you for your reply, sir. I had meant Chomsky as an example... He described himself as "anarcho- syndacalist" and upon reading the theories, they both...
... The "opium of the people", Marx said - "Das opium des Volkes" - in his "Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right." I find Marx's point very interesting...
... A vanguard, an English bastardization of the French term "avant garde", just means any trend that points in the forward direction, whatever "forward" may...
I saw that video, what his name's grandfather. Do you have the link for it. (Keefer Sutherland's grandfather.) ... States. ... just ... production? ... of ...
Of course the ipotant thing to me is to recognize that no matter who we elect, there can't be socialism until there is collective control of means of...
... Hi Dave, I realize that workers have to be convinced for the necessity of owning and operating the means of production. We have a long ways to go to get...
Mike the bottom link worked for me. Thanks. I was going to post the link to the links section of the discussion group, but then I thoiught that maybe you as...
John, of course when I write things like "there can't be socialism until there is collective control of means of production and distribution and we can't have...
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