2021 •
State Theory in the Age of State Capitalism 3.0
Authors:
Ilias Alami
Abstract:
This symposium brings together a range of Marxist perspectives on the state by both early career researchers and more established scholars I write this on day seven of a nation-wide police riot against anti-racist protests in the middle of a global pandemic during which the U S and U K states have failed to manage the outbreak of COVID-19, leading to the highest rate of unemployment since the Great Depression and tens of thousands of needless deaths And more is likely to unfold between now and publication These contributions were completed and (...)
This symposium brings together a range of Marxist perspectives on the state by both early career researchers and more established scholars I write this on day seven of a nation-wide police riot against anti-racist protests in the middle of a global pandemic during which the U S and U K states have failed to manage the outbreak of COVID-19, leading to the highest rate of unemployment since the Great Depression and tens of thousands of needless deaths And more is likely to unfold between now and publication These contributions were completed and submitted to Science & Society months ago Two of the contributions (Hunter and Munro) originally appeared in an earlier form in a series of blog posts "on the Marxist tradition of state dieory and its contemporary lineages," on die blog Legal Form, initiated by Chris O'Kane in 2019 So even diough the essays in this Symposium do not address recent events, diey nonetheless contain much that can help us understand the present situation This is powerful evidence of die enduring usefulness of Marxism and Marxist theories of the state (Read More)
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