Overview
- Offers a reassessment politics against the predominating economist approach to historical materialism
- Aims to demonstrate the role of the political dimension and to contribute to renew Marxist political theory
- Highlights the role of political structures and practices in the reproduction of economic and social relations
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Political Power, Social Classes, and Historical Change
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Front Matter
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Politics and Economy in the Formation of Working Classes
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a reassessment politics against the predominating economicist approach to historical materialism within contemporary Marxism. Boito draws on the structural interpretation of Marxism inspired by Althusser’s works of the mid-1960s and, especially, by Poulantzas’ Political Power and Social Classes. The volume aims to demonstrate the role of the political dimension (together with the economy) and, to a further extent, to contribute to renew contemporary Marxist political theory. The chapters cover topics such as: the nature of political power; the structure and functions of the state; the role of politics in historical change; political crises; and the political formation of the working class. The book highlights the role of political structures and practices in the reproduction of economic and social relations and also in the process of historical change. The aim of the book is to contribute to the renewal of Marxist thought, breaking with the economicist conception that dominated it throughout the last century, and finally meeting the demands of the socialist struggle in the 21st century.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Armando Boito is Professor of Political Science at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. He is editor of the Brazilian journal Crítica Marxista. Among other books, he has published Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil:Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: State, Politics, and Social Classes
Book Subtitle: Theory and History
Authors: Armando Boito
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22046-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22045-6Published: 25 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22048-7Published: 26 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22046-3Published: 24 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 260
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political History, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Political Philosophy