it's a case of the Failed Leviathan. When the Lawman on the white horse (Hobbes'
Leviathan) rides into town, he's supposed to not just toss the bandits out (as in the
classic flick, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) -- he's supposed to create law and order so that
the folks who sacrifice their independence
Sounds like chaos to me. The breakdown of the State
due, not to class conscious activity, but to a
free-market turned into a free-for-all--class divided
social relations without benefit of the rule of
bourgeois law and its police.
Too bad the breakdown of the Iraqui State isn't an
example of anar
