Marxism and the Capitalist State

This book will consist of a tightly organized, but thematically wide-ranging, set of interventions in an emerging multi-disciplinary debate on Marxist approaches to the capitalist state. In their most general form, the basic aims of the volume are threefold: (a) to critically examine the state, and its juridico-political practices and institutions, in light of both long-term and immediate concerns; (b) to rethink the conceptual frameworks and theoretical dilemmas of Marxist state theory, with an eye to contemporary struggles, movements, and developments; and (c) to spark renewed interest in state theory within the broad Marxist tradition, demonstrating its explanatory power and the critical purchase of the analytical tools it puts on offer. The contributors draw from a range of different tendencies, approaches, and bodies of literature, from within the Marxist tradition of the critique of political economy and also beyond it.