The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of MarxismThe spectacular growth in the 1970s and 1980s of the Marxist literature on politics and the state in capitalist society was hailed at the time as cumulative proof of Marxism's success in producing an effective theory of the political superstructure. More generally, it was seen as confirmation of the health and vigor of Marxist theory. Axel van den Berg questions both of these claims. Through comprehensive analysis of Marxist thought on bourgeois politics and the state, from that produced by Marx himself on, van den Berg radically challenges the viability of a distinctly Marxist theory of the state and of recent Marxist theorizing in general. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Marx and Engels on the State and Politics | 14 |
Marxism and Reformism | 96 |
The State as the Instrument of the Capitalist | 180 |
and the Appeal of Structural Functionalism | 406 |
Some Continuities | 489 |
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The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism Axel Van den Berg Limited preview - 2018 |
The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism AXEL. VAN DEN BERG No preview available - 2018 |
The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism Axel Van den Berg No preview available - 2003 |