Please excuse me for reposting an edited, and hopefully clarified, version
of my previous post. I write these things in a stream-of-consciousness
manner, and, apparently, my thought processes must need the cobwebs cleared
out. If you can stand to do so, please read the new post below.

Please note: *BONUS* - free touch of irony at the end of this
new-and-improved version.

 > > On Fri, 2 May 1997, DDeBar wrote:
 > >
 > > I don't think that the State was, or is, the creator of the anarchy of
 > > production that exists in a free-market capiitalism. Yet, such anarchy
does, and will,
 > > always accompany such economies.


> > Historically, and including those operating in the present day, the
capitalist economy
> > is RIFE with anarchy. Wasteful and unnecessary duplication of goods and
services,
> > the simultaneous existance of starvation and waste, prevelant
unemployment and under-
> > employment side by side with large areas of underdevelopment, huge
disparities of
> > wealth and poverty, crises of over- and under-production, irrationality
in
> > resource allocation, etc., etc., all exist within the context of the
capitalist economy.
> > As opposed to a model of economic organization that applies the
resources and labor
> > available to the needs of humanity, the foregoing represent, simply
put, economic anarchy.

> > These problems are explaned away by apologists who allege that the
subordination of
> > the needs of the vast majority of humanity to the "laws" of the market
will, over time, produce
> > a just outcome. This may appear true for the minority who benefit from
the exiting arrangement,
> > but for the vast majority of human beings, it is a criminal theft of
their right
> > and ability to survive and grow to their potential. History teaches
that the simple
> > fact of the economic oppression of the majority by the minority,
regardless
> > of whatever philosophical rationale is applied, can only result in a
great
> > deal of social and political unrest, "crime", war, revolution, etc., or
> > socio-political anarchy. The role of the State in the present is to
attempt
> > to mitigate these effects in order to protect the position and property
of
> > the economic elite, and to render ineffective any attempt to upset the
> > status quo. Consequently, in a very real sense, the State in capitalist
society is, in fact,
> > the true anarchist.

> > - Don DeBar