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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / d. General will

22001	The real will of the cooperative will replace the 'will of the people' [Marx]
	Full Idea: Under collective property, the so called will of the people disappears in order to make way for the real will of the cooperative.
	From: Karl Marx (Grundrisse [1876], p.563), quoted by Peter Singer - Marx 10
	A reaction: [from an 1874 note on Bakunin's 'Statism and Anarchy'] So how do you settle on the 'real' will of a cooperative? The travesty is when a ruling elite decide that, without consultation. An institution is needed. This is still a social contract.