Jim Devine wrote: > > > it's not Lenin's dictum. It's Marx & Engels' dictum. In the > MANIFESTO, they write that: "The executive of the modern state is but > a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
Yes, and note they didn't say "the state," they said "The executive." They were probably thinking of the "cabinet" or cronies who gathered around a monarch or the prime minister & cabinet of a parliamentary regime. In 1848 they probably weren't paying much attention yet to the u.s. and its weird form of state. Carrol
