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The Marxist Conception of the State Max Adler

The Marxist Conception of the State By Max Adler

The Marxist Conception of the State by Max Adler


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A key text by Max Adler, one of the leading theorists of Austromarxism, on the fundamental question of the nature of the state

The Marxist Conception of the State Summary

The Marxist Conception of the State: A Contribution to the Differentiation of the Sociological and the Juristic Method by Max Adler

This translation of Max Adler 's Die Staatsauffassung des Marxismus introduces English readers to an important and distinctive perspective on Marx 's theory of the state, formed through Adler 's experience of the tumultuous interwar period.

Adler 's central target of critique is the notion of the law as the neutral arbiter of democratic society -- a notion which, Adler contends, collapses in the face of an adequate understanding of the ruling class in capitalist society. Beyond providing an important historical survey of arguments over the nature of law and democracy that were conducted between the two World Wars, The Marxist Conception of the State offers contemporary readers a primer for comprehending any truly democratic future state might entail.

About Max Adler

Max Adler, born January 15, 1873 in Vienna, Austria, studied law at the University of Vienna. Renowned as a Neo-Kantian Marxist, he was active in Austrian Social Democracy as both a politician and theoretician until his death in 1937.

Mark E. Blum, Ph.D. (1970), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on German and Austrian-German Marxists, including The Austro-Marxists 1890-1918, A Psychobiographical Study (University of Kentucky, 1985).

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword

A Scholarly Motto that Contributes to the Present Marxist Critique

Politics and Sociology

The Sociological Unity of State and Society

The Development of the Concept of Society

The Further Development of the Concept of Society by Marx

The Formal Logic of Law in Kelsen

The Essential in Marx 's Concept of the State

What Is Class?

Class and Party

Political and Social Democracy

Democracy and Freedom

Revolution or Evolution?

Democracy and Its Organisation

Dictatorship

Government and Administration

Excursus on Anarchism

The 'Marvel ' of Stateless Organisation

Utopianism in Marx and Engels

Why We Are Not Understood!

Afterword

Bibiolography

Index

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NLS9781642593334
9781642593334
1642593338
The Marxist Conception of the State: A Contribution to the Differentiation of the Sociological and the Juristic Method by Max Adler
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Haymarket Books
2020-10-29
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