I guess it all depends if you see "the state" as being capable of expressing something like the common interest. If so, then capture by financial and other economic interests is a corruption of that principle and one needs to fight politically against that corruption. This is, basically, a liberal/social-democratic position.
Or, if you see "the state" inherently tied to dominant interests and therefore working against the interests of the majority. And then, the current state of affairs would be merely a more open display of what which is normal, though usually less well visible. This is, basically, the anarchist/libertarian position. If you believe the latter, then I think one of the difficulties lies in how to fight "the state" (say, through promoting bitcoin) without falling onto the trap of promoting the market as the alternative form of marco-coordination (which is what US-type libertarians advocate). Felix PS: I put "the state" in quotation marks because of the difficulty of drawing clear boundaries around any such entities. Do privately-run but publicly-mandated and -subsidized daycare centers (kitas, in German) belong to the state? On 04/07/2013 05:36 PM, Florian Cramer wrote:
Jaromil (& Nettime), What I fail to understand is why you consider this a political gain (to quote your paper):
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