Beyond the State?: Dominant theories and socialist strategies

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Identifying the Problems....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Against the ‘Holy Trinity’ of ‘The State’, ‘Civil Society’ and ‘The Economy’....Pages 25-33
From ‘Civil Society’ to ‘World Capitalism’: The Reduction of State Institutions to Non-Economic ‘Superstructures’....Pages 34-55
Electoral Struggles: The Limits of ‘Political Business Cycle’ and ‘Class-Theoretical’ Analyses....Pages 56-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Introducing the Concepts of Electoral, Production, Credit and Food Production Processes....Pages 69-81
Overcoming the Dichotomy of ‘The State’ and ‘Civil Society’: The Importance of Electoral Processes....Pages 82-106
Production Processes: Beyond the Separation of ‘The State’ from ‘The Economy’....Pages 107-128
From Abundance to Scarcity: Contradictions within Credit Processes....Pages 129-151
The Industrialisation of Food Production Processes: A Neglected Revolution....Pages 152-170
One ‘World-System’ or ‘Organised Anarchy’: The Crises of Desynchronisation....Pages 171-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Between Reform and Revolution: ‘Alternative Programmes’ and their Failure to Confront the Desynchronisation of Processes....Pages 191-222
A Socialist Stocktaking: Against Stateless Socialism and Market Socialism....Pages 223-250
The Impossibility of Socialist Pluralism without State Institutions....Pages 251-277
Conclusion....Pages 279-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-322