• 97 | Poulantzas, Marxism and the State

  • Sep 12 2024
  • Length: 56 mins
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97 | Poulantzas, Marxism and the State

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  • In this episode we take up the question: what is the State? With 1978’s State, Power, Socialism by Nicos Poulantzas as our guide, we talk about what it means to grasp the state as a historically specific form inseparable from the economy, find ourselves torn between the mutual dissatisfactions of Althusser and Foucault, and ask whether it is even possible to conceptualize ‘the capitalist state’ as such. Doing so might be necessary for political strategic reasons, but O, abstraction! Along the way we give some of our favorite French thinkers a bit of a hard time. It’s meant with love. Mostly.

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    References:

    Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism, trans. Patrick Camiller, with an introduction by Stuart Hall (New York: Verso, 2014)

    Music:

    “Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

    “My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN
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