Marx's Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State: Theoretical Considerations

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Half Title
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Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	1 Waning and waxing of intellectual interest in the state
	2 Existing state theorizing
	3 The state, Capital volume 1, and the Lenin legacy
	4 What is to be done theoretically? A need for a dialectical approach
	5 An overview of the argument
2 A critical review of Marxist state theory post Marx
	1 The capitalist class agency perspective
	2 The capitalist class structure perspective – the political moment
	3 The capitalist class structure perspective – the economic moment
	4 The state actors agency perspective
	5 The working-class agency perspective
	6 Structural-strategic approach
	7 Existing state theory: a critique of its intellectual context and political implications
	8 Conclusion
3 The state and class relations
	1 The state and economic relations
	2 From economic relations to class relations (and their gender and spatial nature)
	3 The state and class struggle
	4 The state and the dominant class as two arms of the class structure
	5 Class society and state functions
	6 Forms of class relation and forms of class-state: some historical examples
	7 Multiple state forms within given class forms
	8 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
4 The state’s internal relation with capitalism and capitalists
	1 An internal relation between the state and the capitalist class
	2 Limits on the state’s functioning
	3 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
5 The state, capitalist commodity relations, and labour power
	1 Use-value, exchange value, and the state
	2 Value relations and the state
	3 The state, the ‘peculiar commodity’, and the labour circuit
	4 The state and commodity fetishism
	5 The state and counter-tendencies to equality and freedom in commodity relations
	6 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
6 The state and capitalist property relations
	1 Forms of private property
	2 State-mediated class differentiation as a basis for capitalist private property
	3 State-assisted extra-economic ‘production’ of capitalist private property
	4 Capitalism, theft, and anti-theft laws
	5 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
7 The state, and capitalist production, exploitation, accumulation, and crisis
	1 The state and the ‘M-C(MP+. . .’ phase of the capital circuit (the sphere of money and means of production)
	2 The state and the ‘C ( . . . + LP)’ phase of capital circuit (the sphere of labour power)
	3 The state and the ‘P’ phase of capital circuit (the sphere of commodity production)
	4 The state and the ‘C′-M′’ phase of capital circuit (the sphere of realization)
	5 The state and capitalist accumulation
	6 The state and tendencies/counter-tendencies towards the crisis of accumulation
	7 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
	Appendix: Studying the state-crisis relation
8 The state and the agency of capitalists and state actors
	1 Structure and agency
	2 Capitalists’ agency
	3 State actors’ agency
	4 Limits to state function in support of capitalist interests
	5 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
9 The state and the agency of the working class
	1 State’s pro-worker interventions and the labour circuit (C-M-C′-R-C)
	2 Driving forces behind state action in favour of workers (and small-scale producers)
	3 Limits to state’s pro-worker interventions, and why?
	4 Bringing it all together: broader theoretical reflections on the state and forms of working-class struggle
	5 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
10 State forms: Geographic and bureaucratic
	1 Geographical forms of the state and capitalist accumulation
	2 Bureaucratic state form and political domination by the state
	3 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
11 Capitalism, imperialism, and the state in the global periphery
	1 Disarticulated development of productive forces in the periphery
	2 Peripheral social formation dominated by ‘backward’ capitalism
	3 Imperialism retarding development of productive forces in the periphery
	4 Class basis of the peripheral state, and peripheral state functions and form
	5 The state, exploited classes, and class struggle from below in the periphery
	6 Coercive nature of the peripheral state’s democratic form
	7 Class contradictions of development and threat to peripheral state’s legitimacy
	8 Summary, and theoretical and political implications
Bibliography
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