you know how people, especially on twitter, try and share their absolute dogshit takes without a care for humility, just unbribled stubbornness
everybody seem so full of themselves and I just can’t bring myself to trust anyone unless they show a hint of doubt over their own thoughts, and that’s flat out absent from most social media
idk, I don’t think I did a good jb describing what I feel, it’s hard to accurately put into words
but like, do you have stuff you usually keep to yourself, because like you know the thought isn’t well rounded or something and you don’t want to say something incorrect. or like interrogations about stuff you can’t really answer by yourself
I think it’s probably possible. I’m completely certain we can’t just replace the state with nothing. I have ideas what could replace it, but I’m very, very uncertain about those.
I’m just spitballing but a “state” in Marx’s terms is explicitly a tool of class control, is it not? I think that opens up the door for, like, free associations of people in the higher stage to build institutions that were might call a government but Marx wouldn’t call a state? I might be wrong here tho
A state is an entity with a monopoly on legitimate violence, which uses that monopoly to create and enforce laws.
Getting rid of the state is a good thing, but power still exists and has a tendency to concentrate, and the natural outcome of this in agrarian civilizations seems to be states. There needs to be some other method of allocating power, which is resistant to concentration, or we end up in this same mess again.
Is that Marx’s definition, though? Did he work from Hobbes’ definition? Seems like the kind of thing Marx would be pretty specific about. Anyone in here read theory that can tell us?
My best idea is a network of narrowly defined task-specific trust/expertise hierarchies (you trust your doctor’s expertise on health, your doctor trusts someone else as a bigger expert, eventually there’s a panel of medical researchers that set the policy all the doctors are following). There are so many different ones of these structures that there’s no room for one to start growing new responsibilities and powers for itself.
