Dear Brian, you recently wrote: http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1356 "We need a people-state, operating at different scales -- global, continental, national, territorial -- and allowing community self-organization for survival and cultural flowering." I already recommended your analysis of the current conjuncture in Empire to our list. However, I am very interested in your elaboration of the state. With George P. here in cc, I'm starting a collective rereading of Nikos Poulantzas, and want to update my own understanding of the concept of the Partner State, If you had any material to enlighten our debates, it would be much appreciated, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/