Every branch of knowledge has a central concept that expresses the fundamental feature or function of the sector of reality it investigate and deals with. The pivotal category of political science is the state.
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This section contains articles on theoretical, analytical and historical themes usually longer than articles published in the news magazine section.
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Marxist Theory
Foreword
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Marxist Theory
Origin and Development of the State in the History of Societies
30 December 2003, byThe state did not always exist. Certain sociologists and other representatives of academic political science are in error when they speak of the state in primitive societies. What they are really doing is identifying the state with the community. In so doing, they strip the state of its special characteristic.
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Marxist Theory
The Bourgeois State: the Face of Everyday Reality
30 December 2003, byThrough the struggle waged by the labour movement certain institutions of the bourgeois state become both more subtle and more complex.
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Marxist Theory
The Proletariat in Power
30 December 2003, byWhen we say that the state remains in existence up to and including the transitional society between capitalism and socialism, the question arises whether the working class still needs a state when it takes power.
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Marxism
Introduction
30 December 2003, byA serious discussion of the historical importance and current relevance of the Leninist theory of organisation is possible only if one determines the exact position of this theory in the history of Marxism - or to be more precise, in the historical process of the unfolding and development of Marxism.
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Marxism
Bourgeois ideology and proletarian class consciousness
30 December 2003, byThe Marxian proposition that "the dominant ideology of every society is the ideology of the dominant class" appears at first glance to conflict with the character of the proletarian revolution as the conscious overturning of society by the proletariat, as a product of the conscious, independent activity of the wage-earning masses.
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Marxism
Proletarian class struggle and proletarian class consciousness
30 December 2003, byThe process whereby the proletarian mass, the proletarian vanguard and the revolutionary party are united depends on the elementary proletarian class struggle growing over into revolutionary class struggle - the proletarian revolution - and on the effects this has on the wage-earning masses.
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Marxism
The revolutionary vanguard and spontaneous mass action
30 December 2003, byIt would be a great injustice to Lenin to characterise his life work as a systematic "underestimation" of the importance of spontaneous mass actions as opposed to their "appreciation" by Luxemburg or Trotsky.
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Marxism
Organisation, bureaucracy and revolutionary action
30 December 2003, byThere is a difficulty in this connection, however, which Lenin, during the years of the most heated disputes with the Mensheviks, recognised either not at all (1903-1905) or only to an insufficient degree (1908-1914).
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Marxism
Organisational theory, revolutionary program, revolutionary practice
30 December 2003, byAfter the traumatic shock suffered by Lenin on August 4, 1914, however, he too made a decisive step forward on this question. From then on, the question of organisation became one not only of function but also of content.
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