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This landmark volume re-centres class analysis as a critical method in the study of states.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction State TransformationsIntroduction: State Transformations
Greg Albo, Stephen Maher and Alan Zuege
part 1
State Theory and Capitalist Democracy
1 From the Canadian State to the Making of Global Capitalism
Clyde W. Barrow
2 Beyond the Impasse of State Theory
Martijn Konings
3 Working-Class Politics Matters Identity, Class, Parties
Dennis Pilon and Larry Savage
part 2
Imperialist Restructuring and Global Capitalism
4 Globalization as Internationalization of Capital Understanding Imperialism and State Restructuring
Sebnem Oguz
5 The State and Imperialism in International Relations Theory
Ana Garcia and Caio Bugiato
6 Bringing Class Back in The State, the ‘Pink Tide’, and the Case of Argentina
Ruth Felder
part 3
From Neoliberalism to Political Crisis
7 The Rebirth of Nationalism and the Crisis of the European Union
Frank Deppe
8 The UK’s Organic Crisis
Colin Leys
9 The Coronacrisis A Body Blow to the Rotting American State
Doug Henwood
10 The State, Trade Union Freedoms, and the Impasse of Working-Class Power in Canada
Charles Smith
part 4
Transforming Class Politics and the State
11 Transformative Agency from a Time of Revolt to a Time of Pandemic
Hilary Wainwright
12 Class Politics and Strategies for Party Building
Michalis Spourdalakis
13 Notes toward a Plausible Socialism
Sam Gindin
14 Between the State and the Streets A Study in Socialist Sobriety
Bryan D. Palmer
Postscript
Greg Albo, Stephen Maher and Alan Zuege
References
Index
About the author
Greg Albo teaches Political Economy in the Department of Politics at York University. He has recently co-edited Divided Province: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism (2018); Beyond Market Dystopia (2020); and Beyond Digital Capitalism (2021).
Stephen Maher is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Ontario Tech University. He is assistant editor of the Socialist Register, and co-author with Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin of the second edition of The Socialist Challenge Today (2020).
Alan Zuege is an assistant editor of the Socialist Register and co-editor of the Socialist Register Classics book series with Haymarket Books. He has also co-edited Phases of Capitalist Development; Value and the World Economy Today; and The Globalization Decade.
Summary
This landmark volume re-centres class analysis as a critical method in the study of states.
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