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well you already have a fine example of what total decentralization of power means in how public education is funded...the reliance on property taxes make public schools into the direct image of the class position of the residents. poorer areas, shittier schools--and no obvious way to make arguments about the fact that this kind of distrubution of resources has terrible consequences--because power resides locally, it is difficult to figure out what register to make arguments about the problem as a general one.
same problem with privatization--it is not about efficiency--it is about reducing political risks for the state in a situation of hieghtened uncertainty (globalizing capitalism radically increases uncertainty for nation-states, which are no longer the dominant unit in shaping/controlling economic activitiy and aincillary social programs)
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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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