The State Debate
The 1990s promise to be a period of rapid political change, as old political boundaries dissolve and new political forces emerge. These changes throw into question our understanding of capitalism and socialism, of the character of the nation state, and of
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Capital and Class General Editor: Simon Qarke The Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) was founded in 1969 to provide a non-sectarian and internationalist forum for Marxist theoretical debate. Much of the most fertile intellectual work on the left over the last two decades has had its origins in the working groups and annual conference of the CSE, and has first been published in CSE'sjoumal Capital and Class. This series makes these fundamental debates available to a wider readership, by bringing together published and unpublished papers with an editorial introduction, in order to inform the renewal of socialist thinking in the 19908. Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway (editors) POST-FORDISM AND SOCIAL FORM Simon Clarke (editor)
THE STATE DEBATE Andy Friedman (editor) THE LABOUR PROCESS Sue Himmelweit (editor)
GENDER
Simon Mohun (editor)
VALUE THEORY
Hugo Radice (editor)
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CAPITAL
The State Debate Edited by
Simon Clarke
Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Warwick
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ISBN 978-0-333-54859-2 ISBN 978-1-349-21464-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-21464-8
Contents 1 The State Debate Simon Clarke Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Problem of the Capitalist State . . . The Gennan Debate . . . . . . . Poulantzas's Theory of the State . . . . The State Debate in the CSE . . . . . . New Directions in the Theory of the State . . . . Structure and Struggle in the Theory of the State Global Capital and the Nation State . . . . . . . Class Struggle, New Social Movements and the Welfare State Beyond the Fragments: the Recomposition of Class . . . .
2 Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas's Theory of
the State
Simon Clarke
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The 'Neo-Gramscian~ Critique of the Theory of State Monopoly Capitalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marx's Concept of Production and the Critique of Political Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Law of Value and the Critique of Bourgeois Ideology Poulantzas's Theory of Social Structure . . . . Poulantzas's Theory of Class . . . . . .
