https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Foreword https://internationalviewpoint.org/Foreword 2003-12-30T00:00:00Z text/html en George Novack Marxism <p>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.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-1969-The-Marxist-Theory-of-the-State-" rel="directory">1969: The Marxist Theory of the State</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Marxism-+" rel="tag">Marxism</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/Origin-and-Development-of-the-State-in-the-History-of-Societies https://internationalviewpoint.org/Origin-and-Development-of-the-State-in-the-History-of-Societies 2003-12-30T00:00:00Z text/html en Ernest Mandel Marxism <p>The 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.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-1969-The-Marxist-Theory-of-the-State-" rel="directory">1969: The Marxist Theory of the State</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Marxism-+" rel="tag">Marxism</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-Bourgeois-State-the-Face-of-Everyday-Reality https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-Bourgeois-State-the-Face-of-Everyday-Reality 2003-12-30T00:00:00Z text/html en Ernest Mandel Marxism <p>Through the struggle waged by the labour movement certain institutions of the bourgeois state become both more subtle and more complex.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-1969-The-Marxist-Theory-of-the-State-" rel="directory">1969: The Marxist Theory of the State</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Marxism-+" rel="tag">Marxism</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-Proletariat-in-Power https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-Proletariat-in-Power 2003-12-30T00:00:00Z text/html en Ernest Mandel Marxism <p>When 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.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-1969-The-Marxist-Theory-of-the-State-" rel="directory">1969: The Marxist Theory of the State</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Marxism-+" rel="tag">Marxism</a>