Louis writes: > Which leads to an interesting question about whether the war was "in the> interests of the ruling class". These are not simple questions. Was> Hitler's mad plunge into the USSR in the interests of the German ruling> class? To a certain extent, you will always have a disjunction between the> state and the class it rules on behalf of, despite Lenin's dictum about> the> state as executive committee of the ruling class. ============================== Marvin;
Or you could say executive committees don't always make the right decisions,and when they fuck up, they are removed by the board and the shareholders.The shareholders in this case were worried from the beginning that the kid -the son of a former chairman - was in over his head, and when things beganto fall apart, decided they needed to clip his wings and clean house. ^^^^^^ CB; But has the kid's war really been to the advantage of the interests of working class, of the U.S. and the world, over the capialist class's interests in the context of the class struggle, the concrete ways in this period in which the two classes are irreconcilably antagonistic ? As a _class_, the ruling class only cares about how the state's actions impact the relationship the ruling class has with the ruled class. Unless the workers of the U.S. and the world have somehow gained in their class struggle with the imperialists and the U.S. bourgeoisie, then the ruling class does not consider that the kid messed up. The new laws that were passed out as a result of the war (on "terror) seem to favor the ruling class over the working class with respect to future civil disorder that might arise in the class struggle. The Iraqi working class does not seem to be strengthened at all vis-a-vis Iraqi capital or imperialist capital. Rather the contrary. I suspect the kid gets high marks from the ruling class for his war. He won't be impeached.
