{"product_id":"state-transformations-classes-strategy-socialism-9789004459144","title":"State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210819264855,"sku":"9789004459144","price":200.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-transformations-classes-strategy-socialism-9789004459144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}