State transformations : : classes, strategy, socialism / / edited by Greg Albo, Stephen Maher and Alan Zuege.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; Volume 189
• TeilnehmendeR: Albo, Gregory,; Maher, Stephen, 1985-; Zuege, Alan, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 189.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 pages)

"It is often remarked that critical - and especially Marxist - state theory began to lose its central place in the study of comparative politics in the 1980s. Ironically, this shift occurred just as neoliberal policies were transforming the social form and spatial scales of the state, radically restructuring the practices of state economic intervention, and extending the capabilities of the coercive arms of the state. This volume addresses the 'impoverishment of state theory' over the last decades and insists on the continued salience of class analysis to the study of states. The book's title, State Transformations, reflects several central themes in the comparative study of states: the neoliberal restructuring of capitalist states, the changing economic and political architecture of imperialism, and the prospects of a democratic transformation of capitalist states. The essays collected here on these themes are in honor and memory of Leo Panitch, whose influential body of work has shaped debates on the state, imperialism, and socialism over the past four decades. Contributors are: Clyde W. Barrow, Caio Bugiato, Frank Deppe, Ruth Felder, Ana Garcia, Sam Gindin, Doug Henwood, Martijn Konings, Colin Leys, Sebnem Oguz, Bryan D. Palmer, Dennis Pilon, Larry Savage, Charles Smith, Michalis Spourdalakis and Hilary Wainwright"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: State Transformations -- Part 1 State Theory and Capitalist Democracy -- Chapter 1 From the Canadian State to the Making of Global Capitalism -- 1 State Theory and Historical Materialism -- 2 From Consent to Coercion -- 3 The Impoverishment of State Theory -- 4 Globalization and the State -- 5 American Empire and the Making of Global Capitalism -- 6 Conclusion: Toward a New Kind of State -- Chapter 2 Beyond the Impasse of State Theory -- 1 Structuralist Antinomies -- 2 Beyond Structuralism -- 3 Resituating Capital -- 4 Conclusion: Neoliberalism and the State -- Chapter 3 Working-Class Politics Matters: Identity, Class, Parties -- 1 The Role of the Working Class in Twentieth-Century Left Politics -- 2 The State of Working-Class Politics in the New Millennium -- 3 The Necessary Links between Working-Class Politics and State-Focused Left Projects -- 4 Self-Transformation and Working-Class Politics -- Part 2 Imperialist Restructuring and Global Capitalism -- Chapter 4 Globalization as Internationalization of Capital: Understanding Imperialism and State Restructuring -- 1 Mainstream Approaches to the Internationalization of Capital and the State -- 2 Marxist Approaches to the Internationalization of Capital and the State -- 3 New Departure Points: Murray, Poulantzas and Palloix -- 4 Deterritorialization of State and Capital -- 5 Towards a Re-territorialized Approach to Capital and the State -- 6 Contradictions within Capital and State in the Process of Internationalization -- 7 Understanding Imperialism Today -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The State and Imperialism in International Relations Theory -- 1 The Capitalist State and Its Internationalization.

2 Rethinking Imperialism as American Informal Empire -- 3 Other Perspectives on Current Imperialism and Global Rivalry -- 4 Contributions to an Analysis of the brics and the Rise of China -- 5 Conclusion: Transcending Pessimism -- Chapter 6 Bringing Class Back In: The State, the 'Pink Tide' and the Case of Argentina -- 1 The Neo-developmentalist Alternative to Latin America's Development Impasse -- 2 Neoliberal Reforms and Their Crisis -- 3 Hitting Bottom: Default, Devaluation, Stagnation and Political Crisis -- 4 Up from the Ashes: Economic Recovery and the Making of the Post-neoliberal Consensus -- 5 From Euphoria to Crisis -- 6 The Illusions of Neo-developmentalism -- Part 3 From Neoliberalism to Political Crisis -- Chapter 7 The Rebirth of Nationalism and the Crisis of the European Union -- 1 Globalization and the State -- 2 European Integration and the 'United States of Europe' -- 3 The Great Transformation and New Constitutionalism of the EU -- 4 The Visions of Lisbon Disappear -- 5 Nationalism and Racism as Answers to the Decline of Neoliberal Hegemony -- 6 EU as European Empire? -- Chapter 8 The UK's Organic Crisis -- 1 Brexit versus Social Democracy -- 2 The Failure of Representation -- 3 A Non-binding Constitution -- 4 A Dysfunctional State -- 5 An Unproductive Economy -- 6 The Parties in Face of the Crisis -- 7 Unknown Forces, Represented by Charismatic 'Men of Destiny' -- 8 Coda: The Pandemic and Beyond -- Author's Note -- Chapter 9 The Coronacrisis: A Body Blow to the Rotting American State -- 1 Systemic Decay -- 2 Dimensions of Crisis -- 3 Structural Damage -- 4 Rotting State -- 5 witbd? -- Chapter 10 The State, Trade Union Freedoms and the Impasse of Working-Class Power in Canada -- 1 On Restrictions of Strikes in Canadian Labor History -- 2 Enter Back-to-Work Legislation.

3 The State and the Never-Ending Use of Back-to-Work Legislation -- 4 Workers' Freedom of Association and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- 5 The Ongoing Assault on Trade Union Freedoms -- Part 4 Transforming Class Politics and the State -- Chapter 11 Transformative Agency from a Time of Revolt to a Time of Pandemic -- 1 Old Problems Radically Reconfigured -- 2 Three Potentially Transformative Responses to the Pandemic by Organized Citizens -- 3 The Long View: Underlying Tendencies and Forces for Change -- 4 Technological Change and Questions for Systemic Change -- 5 Underlying Shifts in Social Values: A Fifty-Year Process -- 6 Organization-Building and Consciousness-Raising Around Production -- 7 Labor Schools of Strategic Organizing -- Chapter 12 Class Politics and Strategies for Party-Building -- 1 The Mainstream Contribution -- 2 The Relative Autonomy of Party from Class -- 3 The Party-Building Challenge -- Chapter 13 Notes toward a Plausible Socialism -- 1 Problematizing Socialism -- 1.1 When Hope Rings Oddly in Our Ears -- 1.2 Capitalism as Socialism's Dialectical Enabler -- 2 Framing Socialism -- 2.1 Worker Control versus Planning -- 2.2 Layers of Planning -- 2.3 In Praise of Messiness -- 2.4 Conclusion: From There to Here -- Chapter 14 Between the State and the Streets: A Study in Socialist Sobriety -- Postscript -- References -- Index.