the state
The state is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel.
- Friedrich Engels
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Capitalism, the state, and the ‘revolving door’
Under capitalism, the ruling class maintains its privileges and power through a bureaucratic state apparatus, in which members of the rich elite move freely between government and big business. We must put an end to this ‘revolving door’.
The role of the state and social democracy
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the writing of Lenin’s great work The State and Revolution, written in the midst of the Russian Revolution to prepare the working class for taking power. To mark this important anniversary we reproduce here key extracts from an introduction of a new edition of this pamphlet, written by Alan Woods.
Marxism and the state
Adam Booth explains the Marxist theory of the state, and how these are different from anarchist and reformist theories.