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This video essay serves three purposes.
1) To understand Why Social Democracy is Not Enough and why nearly ALL governments still govern in favor of the dominant classes.
2) To explain the Marxist theory of the capitalist state and what oversimplified versions of it get wrong. Most notably, the notion of a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie“ is misleading and cannot account for the fact that the ruling class need not “rule“ the government (directly or indirectly) in order to still “rule“ society.
3) To explain how the working class are systemically excluded from institutional power and from changing the state and its legal code, the code that enables the reproduction of capitalism.
Timestamps:
0:00 The “Establishment“
2:35 It’s not just corporate lobbying
4:50 What’s bad about capitalism again?
8:23 The Ruling Class Need Not Rule
10:34 Divisions in the Ruling Class
16:40 Nobody Is in Control
21:19 How The “Matrix“ Works
27:32 Legal Codes and Ideology
35:03 Limits of Social Democracy
My Cosmonaut Article on why “The Ruling Class Need Not Rule“: why-the-ruling-class-need-not-rule-nicos-poulantzas-and-the-marxist-theory-of-the-state
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