Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Marxism and the Capitalist State -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Reopening the State Debate -- 1 Why Theorize the Capitalist State Today? -- 2 Theorizing the Capitalist State: A Brief History -- 3 Theorizing the Capitalist State: Towards a Renewed Debate -- 3.1 Attending to Pressing Challenges -- 3.2 Reconsidering Enduring Questions -- 3.3 Developing New Approaches -- 3.4 Common Themes and Concerns -- 4 Theorizing the Capitalist State: Future Directions -- References -- State, Capital, Nature: State Theory for the Capitalocene -- 1 Capitalism and Nature -- 2 Capitalism and the State -- 3 State, Nature, Capital -- References -- 'Bursting Asunder the Integument': Democracy, Digitalization, and the State -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Digitalization, Imperialism, and the Capitalist State -- 3 Digital Platforms, Bourgeois Democracy, and False Consciousness -- 4 The Emancipatory Potential of Digitalization -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Crisis, Social Reproduction, and the Capitalist State: Notes on an Uncertain Conjuncture -- 1 Pandemic as Social Crisis -- 2 The State as Social Protection? -- 3 The General Role of the Capitalist State -- 4 Social Reproduction Under Authoritarian Neoliberalism -- 5 Contradictions of the American State -- 6 From Crisis to Restabilization? -- References -- From Economic to Political Crisis: Trump and the Neoliberal State -- 1 The Neoliberal Authoritarian State -- 2 Trump and the State Economic Apparatus -- 3 Neoliberalism and Trumpism -- References -- Soldiers and the State in Marx and Engels -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins of the Military -- 2.1 State and Military -- 2.2 Force (Cooperative, Mass, Organized) -- 3 Human Material and Class Struggle -- 3.1 The Soldier and Surplus Value -- 3.2 The Soldier and Class -- 4 Conclusion -- References.
1. Introduction Rob Hunter, Rafael Khachaturian, Eva Nanopoulos -- 2. State, Capital, Nature: State Theory for the Anthropocene Alyssa Battistoni -- 3. 'Bursting Asunder the Integument': Democracy, Digitalisation, and the State Dimitrios Kivotidis -- 4. Crisis, Social Reproduction, and the Capitalist State: Notes on an Uncertain Conjuncture Rafael Khachaturian -- 5. From Economic to Political Crisis: Trump and the Neoliberal State Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno -- 6. Soldiers and the State in Marx and Engels Jasmine Chorley-Schulz -- 7. To Embrace or Reject: Marxism and the 'War-Emergency Paradigm' Eva Nanopoulos -- 8. Socially Reproductive Workers, 'Life Making', and State Repression Kirstin Munro -- 9. Social Murder: Capitalism's Systematic and State-Organised Killing Nate Holdren -- 10. Beyond Abstractionism: Notes on Conjunctural State Theory Michael A. McCarthy -- 11. The Marx Revival and State Theory: Towards a Negative-Dialectical Critical Social Theory of the State Chris O'Kane -- 12. The Capitalist State as Historically-Specific Social Form Rob Hunter.
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