"The State is a political abstraction, a hierarchical institution by which a privileged elite strives to dominate the vast majority of people. The State’s mechanisms include a group of institutions containing legislative assemblies, the bureaucracy, the military and police forces, the judiciary and prisons, and the subcentral State apparatus. The government is the administrative vehicle to run the State. The purpose of this specific set of institutions which are the expressions of authority in capitalist societies (and so-called “s”), is the maintenance and extension of domination over the common people by a privileged class, the rich in Capitalist societies, the so-called in State Socialist or Communist societies like the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. However, the State itself is always an elitist position structure between the rules and the ruled order-givers and order-takers, and economic haves and have-nets. The State’s elite is not just the rich and the super-rich, but also those persons who assume State positions of authority — politicians and juridical officials. Thus the State bureaucracy itself, in terms of its relation to ideological property, can become an elite class in its own right. This administrative elite class of the State is developed not just the through dispensing of privileges by the economic elite, but as well by the separation of private and public life — the family unit and civil society respectively — and by the opposition between an individual family and the larger society. It is sheer opportunism, brought on by Capitalist competition and alienation. It is a breeding ground for agents of the State."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution (1993)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elite
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Elite
11 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Elite →
Related Quotes
"The institution of Capitalist property, moreover, permits a minority of the population to control and to regulate acc…"
"But there were a few human beings who gradually, through the process of invention and experiment, built and operated,…"
"These hard, powerful, brilliantly resourceful sea masters had to sleep occasionally, and therefore found it necessary…"
"It is better to be a total failure in democracy than a martyr or the crème de la crème in tyranny."
"The whole notion of the free market, laissez-faire capitalism, globalization is a very thin rationale for unmitigated…"
"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to …"
"More and more, I tune out when I see the word "elites," regarding it as a lazy Marxist slur, from both Left and Right…"
"I came to understand how organized governments used their concentrated power to retard progress by their ever-ready m…"
"The practice of democracy has the notorious tendency to become paradoxical. It begins in the name of the "demos" but …"
"We should be alarmed when members of the ruling class start pleading with us to take sides with them against the 'eli…"