> >*Sigh*
>>
>>Marx did not write in the _Manifesto_ that the state is the executive
>>committee of the bourgeoisie.
>>
>>He wrote that the executive of the modern state is a committee for
>>managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie--suggesting that the
>>democratically-elected legislature of the modern state is something
>>else.
>>
>>This misquotation has served the function through the twentieth
>>century of making Marx appear closer to Lenin than he in fact was...
>>
>>
>>Brad DeLong
>
>There is no real difference between Marx and Lenin on the theory of the
>state.
See! There it is again!
Marx was a democrat. Some of you may have known Lenin, Lenin may be a
friend of some of yours, but he ain't no democrat.
Brad
