Dear Brian,<div><br></div><div>you recently wrote: <a href="http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1356">http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1356</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; ">"We need a people-state, operating at different scales -- global, continental, national, territorial -- and allowing community self-organization for survival and cultural flowering."</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">I already recommended your analysis of the current conjuncture in Empire to our list.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">However, I am very interested in your elaboration of the state.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">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,</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">If you had any material to enlighten our debates, it would be much appreciated,</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">Michel<br clear="all">
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