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here is one level of the disagreement between us, wonderwench--when i think about the state, i do not at all seperate it from the social environments within which is works--it seems to me that your view does because you assume that the important interactions occur within/between bracnhes of the state itself. if you make that move, i can see how your views of the state would follow--but i do not see how you can make the move.
same kind of thing with privatization: i think about it mostly as an operation aimed at removing zones tht are now public from public scrutiny--depoliticization--and think that all the arguments about privatization that are floating about now are bullshit. because they are arguments that seems to me to function to obscure what the effects of the move are. frankly, i think the privatization drives are operations being carried out to reduce the political risks for the state in navigating the transition into a more globalizing capitalism--the social consequences of the shift are unpredictable---easier to create cul-de-sacs that would prevent folk from understanding errors in this regard as political than otherwise.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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