The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Marx and Engels on the State and Politics -- Marx and Engels on the State -- Marxism and Utopianism -- Marx and Engels on Revolution and Reform -- Chapter 2: Marxism and Reformism -- The Early Debates: Bernstein and Social Democratic Orthodoxy -- Lenin and the "Renegade" Kautsky -- Marxism and Politics after Lenin -- Marxism versus Reformism? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The State as the Instrument of the Capitalist Class -- The State in Capitalist Society: Miliband -- "Corporate Liberalism": Domhoff -- Marxist Criticisms of "Instrumentalism" -- Chapter 4: Structural Functionalism Revisited (1): Structuralism -- Althusserian "Structuralism" -- Poulantzas's Theory of the Capitalist State -- From "Cohesion" to "Class Struggle" -- Althusser's "Orrery" -- "Theoretical Practice," Scientific Explanation, and Dogma: A Critique of Poulantzas -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Structural Functionalism Revisited (2): Accumulation versus Legitimation -- State Functions and System (In)Stability -- State "Functions" as Marxist Dogma -- The Unexamined Presuppositions of Marxism and the Appeal of Structural Functionalism -- Chapter 6: The State and the Class Struggle: Dynamics Restored? -- Chapter 7: Conclusion:From the Marxist Theory of the Stateto the State of Marxist Theory -- Marxist Theories of the State: A Summary -- Marxism: Creeping Embourgeoisement? -- Marx and the Marxist Theory of the State: Some Continuities -- Marxism: The "Immanentist" Core -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index