Posted by David Searles on December 15, 2008 at 07:38:38:
The first SLP reference to SIU as supplanting the state seems to be
in the 1905 Preamble to the IWW by DeLeon. Yet the concept would not
be found in the platform of the SLP until 1912 - and even there just
a blurb:
The structure of the political state contemplates territorial
"representation" only; the structure of the Industrial State
contemplates representation of industries, of useful occupations
only.
http://www.slp.org/pdf/platforms/plat1912.pdf
The 1911 pamphlet by Bohn and Haywood, Industrial Socialism, seems to be the clearest and
earliest exposition of the concept - but even there there's more heat
than light on the subject.
The whole idea that the SIU would TOTALLY supplant the political state to me seems to have been cooked up to fall in line with the idea of progressing into the third great epoch of human society consistent with Lewis Henry Morgan's Ancient Society.
What do others think.