State, politics, and social classes : theory and history / Armando Boito.
Boito Júnior, Armando, author.
2023
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Title
State, politics, and social classes : theory and history / Armando Boito.
Author
Boito Júnior, Armando, author.
ISBN
9783031220463 (electronic bk.)
3031220463 (electronic bk.)
3031220455
9783031220456
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22046-3
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxix, 260 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-22046-3 doi
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JA76
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.2
Summary
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 Althussers works of the mid-1960s and, especially, by Poulantzas Political Power and Social Classes. The volume aims to demonstrate the role of the political dimension (together with the economy) and, to a further extent, to contribute to renew contemporary Marxist political theory. The chapters cover topics such as: the nature of political power; the structure and functions of the state; the role of politics in historical change; political crises; and the political formation of the working class. The book highlights the role of political structures and practices in the reproduction of economic and social relations and also in the process of historical change. The aim of the book is to contribute to the renewal of Marxist thought, breaking with the economicist conception that dominated it throughout the last century, and finally meeting the demands of the socialist struggle in the 21st century. Armando Boito is Professor of Political Science at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. He is editor of the Brazilian journal Crtica Marxista. Among other books, he has published Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism (2021). .
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Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.
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STATE, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL CLASSES.
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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. .

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