State, Power, Socialism [Paperback]

InState, Power, Socialism,the leading theorist of the state and European communism advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state. Arguing against a general theory of the state, Poulantzas identifies forms of class power crucial to socialist
strategy that go beyond the state apparatus.“It is Poulantzas’s great virtue to have seen so clearly that an adequate Marxist theory of politics must be able to deal with just those phenomena which non-Marxists have regarded as decisive refutations of Marxism.”—Times Literary SupplementNicos Poulantzaswas born in Athens in 1936 and died in Paris in 1979. His other published works includePolitical Power and Social Classes,Classes in Contemporary Capitalism,Fascism and DictatorshipandState, Power, Socialism.

A translator from Romanian, Spanish, German, French, and Italian,Patrick Camillerhas translated many works, including Dumitru Tsepeneag’sVain Art of the Fugue,The Necessary Marriage, andHotel Europa.US