Year 18 of the Institute for Labour Studies: CAPITALIST STATE

Elektro Ljubljana Union Hall (entrance at the Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana)

Numerous traditional theories of state, which developed within the horizon of historic materialism, were immersed either in the debate about the base and superstructure and thus reduced to economism, or they considered the state as the tool in the hands of the ruling class, whereby only the class division was taken into account and not the special social form in which classes refer to one another. Theoretic and politically productive conception of the state is the one which distances itself from the views above and seeks the essential characteristics of the bourgeois state as a distinctive political form for transferring social matters.

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