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O Estado, o poder, o socialismo de Poulantzas como um clássico moderno. / Jessop, Bob.
In: Revista de Sociologia e Politica, Vol. 17, No. 33, 02.11.2009, p. 131-144.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - O Estado, o poder, o socialismo de Poulantzas como um clássico moderno
AU - Jessop, Bob
N1 - Portuguese Translation of "Kapitalistischer Staatstyp und autoritärer Etatismus. Poulantzas’s Staatstheorie als moderner Klassik", in L. Bretthauer, A. Gallas, J. Kanankulam, and I. Stützle, eds, Poulantzas Lesen: Zur Aktualität marxistischer Staatstheorie, Hamburg: VSA, 65-81.
PY - 2009/11/2
Y1 - 2009/11/2
N2 - Poulantzas claimed that State, Power, Socialism, his last major work, completed the theory of the capitalist type of state that Marx and Engels had left unfinished (1978b). While this immodest but provocative claim certainly merits discussion, it cannot be seriously evaluated in a short essay. Instead I will advance four main arguments. First, Poulantzas developed a major original contribution to the theory of the capitalist type of state that goes well beyond most conventional Marxist analyses and contrasts markedly with studies of the state in capitalist society. Second, he developed a broader approach to the state as a social relation that holds for the capitalist type of state, diverse states in capitalist social formations, and statehood more generally. Third, he adopted both approaches in his own theoretical and historical analyses. And, fourth, his analysis of the current form of the capitalist type of state was highly prescient, with 'authoritarian statism' far more evident now than when he noted this emerging trend in the 1970s. After I have advanced all three arguments, I will also note some basic limitations to Poulantzas's approach to materialist state theory, concluding that State, Power, Socialism should be regarded as a modern classic.
AB - Poulantzas claimed that State, Power, Socialism, his last major work, completed the theory of the capitalist type of state that Marx and Engels had left unfinished (1978b). While this immodest but provocative claim certainly merits discussion, it cannot be seriously evaluated in a short essay. Instead I will advance four main arguments. First, Poulantzas developed a major original contribution to the theory of the capitalist type of state that goes well beyond most conventional Marxist analyses and contrasts markedly with studies of the state in capitalist society. Second, he developed a broader approach to the state as a social relation that holds for the capitalist type of state, diverse states in capitalist social formations, and statehood more generally. Third, he adopted both approaches in his own theoretical and historical analyses. And, fourth, his analysis of the current form of the capitalist type of state was highly prescient, with 'authoritarian statism' far more evident now than when he noted this emerging trend in the 1970s. After I have advanced all three arguments, I will also note some basic limitations to Poulantzas's approach to materialist state theory, concluding that State, Power, Socialism should be regarded as a modern classic.
KW - Authoritarian statism
KW - Capitalist state types
KW - Marxist theory of the state
KW - Poulantzas
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:70350380471
VL - 17
SP - 131
EP - 144
JO - Revista de Sociologia e Politica
JF - Revista de Sociologia e Politica
SN - 0104-4478
IS - 33
ER -