ABSTRACT
Every social formation must reproduce the conditions of its production at the same time that it produces, and in order to be able to produce. The definition of the State as a class State, existing in the repressive State apparatus, casts a brilliant light on all the facts observable in the various orders of repression whatever their domains. The distinction between the public and the private is a distinction internal to bourgeois law, and valid in the (subordinate) domains in which bourgeois law exercises “authority.” The foremost objective and achievement of the French Revolution was not just to transfer State power from the feudal aristocracy to the merchant-capitalist bourgeoisie, to break part of the former repressive RSA and replace it with a new one—but also to attack the number one ISA: the Church. Somewhere around the age of sixteen, a huge mass of children are ejected “into production”: these are the workers or small peasants.
