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Presenting a sustained and concrete challenge to the current political consensus, this reference identifies the radical alternative of adopting socialism as the key issue facing civilization and the crucial condition of making substantial progress. Demonstrating that capitalist control of the state was so comprehensive that partial reforms were impossible, this reference attempts to explain how society has managed to evade socialism, exploring how its claims have failed to persuade many intellectuals and the potential benefactors of an alternative order. Reviewing the influence of economic elites and the dominant class, this study also probes the state's claims to legitimacy, defines the purpose and role of governments, and analyzes the concepts of reform and repression. Depicting how the state reemerged from behind the mystifications of the political system and its behavior to become the central theme of political studies, this radical and philosophical investigation combines a political appeal with thorough, detailed scholarship. A discussion of servants of the state and the concept of imperfect competition are also included.
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Ralph Miliband was one of the key intellectual figures of the British New Left and the founder of the "Socialist Register." He was a professor at the London School of Economics, Brandeis University, York University-Toronto, and the graduate center of the City University of New York and was chair of politics at the University of Leeds. He is the author of "Divided Societies," "Marxism and Politics," " "and "Socialism for a Sceptical Age." He is the coeditor of "A Dictionary of Marxist Thought."
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- PublisherAakar Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 9350021102
- ISBN 13 9789350021101
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages276
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Book Description Contents ForewordLeo Panitch Preface 1 Introduction 2 Economic elites and dominant class 3 The state system and the state elite 4 The purpose and role of governments 5 Servants of the state 6 Imperfect competition 7 The process of legitimation I 8 The process of legitimation II 9 Reform and repression Notes Index The State in Capitalist Society is recognized as one of the most important books in political sociology published since the Second World War In the wake of a neo-liberal era recognized almost universally as one which saw the retreat of the state the massive scale of state intervention today makes the republication of this classic study extremely timely This edition includes a new foreword by Professor Leo Panitch York University Toronto 246 pp. Seller Inventory # 91191
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