Is Jim Cairns Australias most famous anarchist?
So far theory has told us that in the final analysis power is economic; it consists of the direct and indirect exercise of the powers of the means of production. Capitalists and communists substantially agree with this. Capitalists do so completely. For them, however, the `superstructure’ is independent. For Marxists there is a relation between the economic structure and the superstructure, ie, the first determines the second. The economic structure is the base, the real foundation, on which there is a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of consciousness. But how is it done? How is consciousness formed? Is it done in the economic structure? Within the means of production? By work? By the class structure? Economics is not enough to tell us how consciousness is formed. We have to go to Engels, Freud, Reich, Gramsci and Marcuse, at least, for the answer which turns out to be significantly psychological and biological. But so far, the limitation of po
