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Some Suggestions Towards a Total Critique of The State

by Dilip Simeon, 7 October 2013

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For most of the Left today, the state is an externally existing ’instrument of the ruling class’, something that is used for enacting policies. This reactionary naivete betrays and imprisonment within the necessary appearances of modern society. The left does not see itself as movement to abolish this monstrous institution, but rather, wishes to ’capture the state power’, and refine it. [. . .] DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT PDF

Some Suggestions Towards a Total Critique of The State
by D.S. / May 1977
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