Capitalisim State formation and marxist theory
- London Quartet Books 1980
- 232 p.
This collection of essays, edited by Phillip Corrigan, coincides with an awakening of interest in the English State apparatus, Recent revelations. such as the Crossman Diaries, have precipitated heated debate about the purpose, efficiency and ethics of State activity. With the decline of England's position as a dominant capitalist power, the uneasy compromise between a social and a political economy has come to an
end.
The study does not claim to be a finished interpretation of State formation in any of its parts, but suggests strategies, questions methods and evidence for such a project
Drawing upon a vast body of social, political and philosophical literature, ranging from the Poor Laws and Enclosures of Elizabethan timus, to the Welfare State and Foucault's theories of sexuality the authors aim to provide pointers along the road to Socialm