Re: M-TH: Re: Gramsci on the State

2000-01-03 Thread Chris Burford
At 14:31 03/01/00 +0100, Hugh wrote: > >>There is no doubt that Gramsi's ideas are open to a reformist >>interpretation. They also try to tackle the complexity of late bourgeois >>state and society in which the state intervenes in all sorts of ways, some >>of which are not about the open threat

M-TH: Re: Imperialisms

2000-01-03 Thread Michael Pugliese
As a supplement to the M. Salvadori NLB/Verso volume, perhaps this book is worth a look see? Chris Burford or other thaxians seen it? Michael Pugliese > > Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy > By John H. Kautsky, Karl Kautsky > > Reviews > From Booknews > Fol

M-TH: Re: Gramsci on the State

2000-01-03 Thread Hugh Rodwell
Chris B writes: >Thanks for dealing with these arguments directly. Which was more than I got >from the Moderator of Marxism (LP) on the PEN-L list, whose reply appeared >to be that self-evidently these ideas could not be taken seriously because >they were written in prison! If LP is Proyechhht t

Re: M-TH: Gramsci on the State

2000-01-03 Thread Chris Burford
At 22:10 02/01/00 +0100, Hugh wrote: > >This makes things pretty clear, I think. > >The first sentence talks about "the general notion of the State", that is >one valid for any state regardless of the class character of the ruling >class that organizes it to protect its interests in the mode of