State, Politics, and Social Classes Theory and History
This book offers a reassessment politics against the predominating economicist approach to historical materialism within contemporary Marxism. Boito draws on the structural interpretation of Marxism inspired by Althusser’s works of the mid-1960s and, especially, by Poulantzas’ Political Power and So...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Preface
- Part 1: State, politics, social classes and historical change
- Chapter 2. Introduction
- Chapter 3. The capitalist state at the center: A Critique of Michel Foucault's concept of power
- Chapter 4. The place of State in the Marxist theory of history
- Chapter 5. State and transition to capitalism: Feudalism, Absolutism and Bourgeois political revolution
- Chapter 6. State and transition to socialism: Was the Paris Commune a workers' power?
- Chapter 7. The concept of revolutionary crisis: 1789: France in 1789
- Chapter 8. The Political scene and class interests in capitalist society: Marx's analysis
- Part 2: Politics and economy in the formation of the working classes
- Chapter 9. Pre-capitalism, capitalism and worker resistance: Elements for a theory of union action
- Chapter 10. The (difficult) formation of the working class
- Chapter 11. The constitution of the proletariat into a class in the Manifesto of the Communist Party: Polemicizing with Some Classic Interpretations
- Chapter 12. The exhaustion of the 20th century revolutionary cycle
- Chapter 13. Middle class and unionism
- Chapter 14. Citizenship and social classes.