#state-power

[bauhaussituationist1917]

[enplenalocura]

The Invisible Hand (viz., the Death Squad)

If only it were really that simple! True free market economics would use state power to strip both cave persons of their livelihoods and everything they hitherto used to stake out their existence, would employ "scientists" working for Frankenstein Foods, Inc. to genetically modify trees to grow at 20x their normal rate and ship them to be planted and harvested by the first cave person at wages too low to buy either rocks or land, while Pacific Rim Mining Company would bomb rocks out of the mountainside of some undeserving third party's former cave home and ship them by the metric ton to be carried and sold by the second cave person just to pay for the cost of some social service that they would die without.

[wavesfadingwords]

The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building

John Holloway...