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Towards a Better Theory of the Capitalist State: Combining Block’s and Poulantzas’ Approaches

In this paper I argue that much of Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the capitalist state as set out in his final work, State, Power, Socialism (SPS), may be fruitfully combined with the ideas of Fred Block as put forward in

Towards a Better Theory of the Capitalist State: Combining Block’s and Poulantzas’ Approaches

Nation, Imperialism, War. A critique of mainstream theories of imperialism

First, according to Marx’s argument, isolated individual capitals within a social formation, are transformed through competition (and not through the political influence of the state exercised from outside, as, e.g. Hardt and Negri [2000: 304-5] mistakenly maintain), into elements of

Nation, Imperialism, War. A critique of mainstream theories of imperialism

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