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''The state is this institution that has the extraordinary power of producing a socially ordered world without necessarily giving orders, without exerting a constant coercion there isn’t a policeman behind every car, as people often say. This kind of quasi- magical effect deserves explanation. All other effects military coercion, economic coercion by way of taxation are in my view secondary in relation to this. I believe that the initial accumulation, contrary to what is maintained by a certain materialist tradition (materialist in the impoverished sense of the term), is an accumulation of symbolic capital: the whole of my work is intended to produce a materialist theory of the symbolic, which is traditionally opposed to the material.''
Pierre Bourdieu

On the State

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/01/2020
      ISBN13: 9780745663302, 978-0745663302
      ISBN10: 0745663303
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      ''The state is this institution that has the extraordinary power of producing a socially ordered world without necessarily giving orders, without exerting a constant coercion there isn’t a policeman behind every car, as people often say. This kind of quasi- magical effect deserves explanation. All other effects military coercion, economic coercion by way of taxation are in my view secondary in relation to this. I believe that the initial accumulation, contrary to what is maintained by a certain materialist tradition (materialist in the impoverished sense of the term), is an accumulation of symbolic capital: the whole of my work is intended to produce a materialist theory of the symbolic, which is traditionally opposed to the material.''
      Pierre Bourdieu

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