State, Space, World: Selected Essays

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Acknowledgments
State, Space, World
Introduction. State, Space, World: Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism—Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden
	Henri Lefebvre\'s State Theory in Contexts
	Openings: 1968 and the Explosion of Marxism
	Dialogues: Marxism and Beyond
	State Power and Autogestion
	The State Mode of Production and Antiproductivist State Theory
	State Space and Mondialisation
	Structure and Organization of the Book
	Beyond Fordist Marxism? The Futures of Lefebrve
		The New Politics of Space
		Development versus Growth: Beyond Left Productivism
		States, Territory, and Violence Under \"Globalization\"
		Radical Democracy and the Critique ofthe State
		Toward a Politics ofthe Possible
	Notes
Part I: State, Society, Autogestion
	1. The State and Society (1964)
		An Essential Problem
		The State and Social Sciences
		Statesmen and Men of the State
		The State and the Process of Economic Growth
		Economic, Social, and Political
		Men of the State and Technocrats
		The Myth of Consumer Society
		State Socialists
		Khrushchev and the Restoration of Democracy
		Notes
	2. The Withering Away of the State: The Sources of Marxist-Leninist State Theory (1964)
		The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
		The Withering Away of the State: a Fundamental Idea of Marx
		The Critique of the State in Marx
		The Fissure Between Man and Citizen
		Political Life Versus Real Life
		Critique of the Rights of Man
		Democracy and the People
		The Contradictions of the State
		The End of the State
		The Stalinist Distortion
		The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
		The State in the Process of Withering Away
		Freedom and the State
		Notes
	3. The State in the Modern World (1975)
		Part 1: The State in the Modern World
		Part 2: From Hegel to Mao Via Stalin (The Marxist Theory of the State and the Aporias-the Difficulties of So-called Marxist Thought)
		Part 3: The State mode of Production (SMP)
		Part 4: The Contradictions of the State (The Dialectic and/of the State). Insufficiencies of the \"Statist Critique of the State,\" of Liberalism, of Political Protestantism
		Conclusions
		Postscript
		Notes
	4. Comments on a New State Form (1979)
		The State and the Regulation of Energy
		The State and Information Technology
		Notes
	5. Theoretical Problems of Autogestion (1966)
		On the Unity of the Workers\' Revolutionary Movement
		Elements for a Sociology of Autogestion
		The Problematic of Autogestion
		(Provisional) Conclusions
		Notes
	6. \"It Is the World That Has Changed\": Interview with Autogestion et socialisme
Part II. Space, State Spatiality, World
	7. Reflections on the Politics of Space (1970)
		Notes
	8. Space: Social Product and Use Value (1979)
		Capitalist Space
			The Different Functions of Capitalist Space
				Means of Production
				An Object of Consumption
				A Political Instrument
				The Intervention of Class Struggle
			The Contradictions of Capitalist Space
				A Major Contradiction
				A Space Oriented toward the Reproducible . . .
				. . . and Negating the Differences
			The Generalized Explosion of Spaces
			Social Movements that Question the Use of Space
		Toward a Socialist Space
			The Determining Role of Social Movements
			A General Autogestion
			A Redefinition of Space as a Function of Use Value-How Are These Revolutionary Processes Foreseen?
		Notes
	9. The Worldwide and the Planetary (1973)
		Pre-text and Outside-the-text
		Notes
	10. Space and Mode of Production (1980)
		Space
			1. Homogeneity
			2. Fragmentation
			3. Hierarchization
		Space and Mode of Production
		The State and the Worldwide System of States
		Notes
	11. Space and the State (1978)
		Notes
	12. Review of Kostas Axelos\'s Toward Planetary Thought (1965)
		Notes
	13. The World according to Kostas Axelos (1986)
		Philosopher? Of What? The Last? How and Why?
		Notes
	14. The Worldwide Experience (1978)
		Notes
	15. Revolutions (1986)
		The Term \"Revolution\"
		Cultural Revolution
		Table of the Twentieth Century
		Commentary on the Table
		Notes
Further Readings
Publication History
	Index