The state in modern society
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The state in modern society
Humanity Books, 2000
- cloth : alk. paper
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents a framework through which to understand the relationship between social class and the state from a broadly Marxist perspective. The framework focuses on the idea that states represent ruling classes, even though imperfectly, and that the political arena is not independent of economic class structures. Whereas most works dealing with the relationship between class and state concentrate on single examples and single countries, this book examines in a comparative way an entire set of modern state types in the context of class relationships. Four types of state are analysed: the 'third world' authoritarian state (in several of its forms); the modern liberal or bourgeois state; the fascist or Nazi state; and the Soviet or, more properly, the Stalinist state. In addition, more explicitly focused chapters discuss the connection between the ruling bourgeois class and the modern state, and the ways in which different states deal with ethnic minorities. All theoretical discussions are supported by copious data and many specific examples of particular concepts are cited.
Through trenchant analysis and succinct prose, "The State in Modern Society" admirably fills the need for a book that translates the sometimes jargon-ridden Marxist perspective into language comprehensible to university students and to the educated lay public as well.
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