The Marxist conception of the state : : a contribution to the differentiation of the sociological and the juristic method / / by Max Adler ; edited and with a preface by Mark E. Blum.

This translation of Max Adler’s Die Staatsauffassung des Marxismus enables English readers to know a significant perspective on Marx’s theory of the state, which was central to the interwar period in which he was writing (1922). In an extended dialogue with democratic jurist Hans Kelsen, Adler shows...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book Series; volume192
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Series:Historical Materialism Book Series; volume192.
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • A Scholarly Motto That Contributes to the Present Marxist Critique
  • Politics and Sociology
  • The Sociological Unity of State and Society
  • The Development of the Concept of Society
  • The Further Development of the Concept of Society by Marx
  • The Formal Logic of Law in Kelsen
  • The Essential in Marx’s Concept of the State
  • What Is a Class?
  • Class and Party
  • Political and Social Democracy
  • Democracy and Freedom
  • Revolution or Evolution?
  • Democracy and Its Organisation
  • Dictatorship
  • Government and Administration
  • Excursus on Anarchism
  • Apparent Anarchism in Marxism
  • The ‘Marvel’ of the Stateless Organisation
  • Utopianism in Marx and Engels
  • Why We Are Not Understood!
  • Afterword
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.