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.
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.
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.
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.
