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The problem is that when you have a recently minted, largely unemployed underclass who are not having their basic needs met, you frequently get rebellion. At th
by moate 8y ago
The problem is that when you have a recently minted, largely unemployed underclass who are not having their basic needs met, you frequently get rebellion. At that point the state's ability to enforce contracts, protect property, and dole out justice becomes severely hampered.
The best way to think of it, IMO, is the way Marx described the State which is a group built to protect the bourgeoisie.
It should (will? could?) eventually reach a point in which the State represents a social contract between all members of a civil society to work in the group's overall best interests.
- mindcrime 8y agoThe best way to think of it, IMO, is the way Marx described the State which is a group built to protect the bourgeoisie. It's funny, I've got a whole pile of books by, and on, Marx, piled up waiting to be read (even though I'm a Libertarian in American terms. "know thy enemy" and all that) but finding time to get to that stuff is always the challenge. I did not realize that Marx described the State as such. That is a somewhat interesting take on things.
- moate 8y agoThe basics of the most Marxism and Conflict Theory are that 1- There is an imbalance in the availability of goods/services relative to needs/desires (capitalists call this "supply and demand"). 2- Society is built in such a way that those bourgeoisie are rewarded unfairly for their contribution (ownership and capital) relative to the contributions of the proletariat(physical creation of goods, performance of service) 3- The current state exists in ways that allow for that status quo to continue, through the very existence of a "State Class" (politicians) who act on behalf of the Owner Class but create the illusion of a second group acting against the workers thus dividing their attention