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Released: October 10, 1994

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Britain, 2022, where two and a half million people rely on food banks, and the “levelling-up secretary” wants to cut public services even further to fund tax breaks for the rich. What’s even left to cut?

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SIMON CLARKE & LUKE PLAPP ‹ Giro d'Italia 2024 - Stage 8 › 📸 by Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse

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Now that Simon and Milo and full young adults, it’s time to improve on those skills

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The error of bourgeois theories of the state, which is shared by social democratic theories, and even by the more radical analysts of the Frankfurt school, is that they fetishise the differentiated forms of capitalist social relations by detaching them from one another and treating them as though they were distinct and independent social relations, ignoring the fact that they are only comprehensible in their inter-relationship as differentiated forms of the social relations of capitalist production. Thus, for example, the substance of such economic categories as ‘wages’, ‘price’ and ‘profit’ is provided by the social relations of capitalist production, and it is only on the basis of an analysis of those social relations as a whole that the ‘economic’ categories can be understood. The implication is that such ‘political’ categories as ‘law’, ‘citizenship’, ‘rights’ have equally to be seen as fetishised forms of the social relations of capitalist production, Marx’s theory of value providing the starting point for a Marxist theory of the state just as much as for a Marxist theory of the ‘economic’ forms of social existence. 

The argument that economic and political relationships are the fetishised forms of the underlying social relations of production does not imply that they are a pure illusion. Nothing could be further from the truth, for they are the categories which give institutional form to everyday social existence, expressing the differentiation of the institutional forms within which the class struggle over the reproduction of capitalist social relations is fought out. However the central point is that these institutional forms only derive their content from the social relations which they express, and so it is only on the basis of those social relations that they can be understood and their development explained. 

It is not only the content of these fetishised categories which has to be explained in relation to the underlying social relations of production, but also the forms themselves. The categories of the economic and the political (wages, prices, profit, the law, political parties) are not found in every society, but only in those societies based on the capitalist mode of production. In other forms of society the distinction between the economic and political either does not exist at all, or exists in very different forms. Thus the specific forms of the economic and the political cannot be taken as given, but have to be derived from the more fundamental categories of the social relations of production, in order to establish simultaneously their distinctiveness and their complementarity. 

Simon Clarke, The State Debate

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'The dream finally came true': Aussie veteran Simon Clarke wins first Tour de France stage

Australian cycling veteran Simon Clarke earns a magnificent, last-ditch Tour de France triumph to crown 20 years of slog on Europe's roads after a brutal, crash-strewn cobbled stage.

Comment:

Notwithstanding tech modifications, cyclists tumbled on the 2022 TDF stage 5 cobble-stones but veteran, Simon Clarke, prevails after 20yrs working the European circuit.

Extract:

Australian cycling veteran Simon Clarke has earned a magnificent, last-ditch Tour de France triumph to crown 20 years of slog on Europe's roads after a brutal, crash-strewn cobbled stage.

But while the 35-year-old Israel-Premier Tech rider was left in floods of joyous tears after edging a lung-bursting sprint to win the fifth stage in a photo finish, it proved a calamitous day for Australia's biggest hitters on the Tour.