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Marxist View of State - Coggle Diagram
Marxist View of State
Marxist theory of state can be studied as
Structuralist Theory
Found in Karl Marx’s work “Eighteenth Brumaire of Louise Bonaparte”
Multiple dominant classes
No single class controls the state.
State is relatively autonomous.
State still supports the bourgeoisie.
Instrumentalist Theory
Based on Historical Materialism
Marx viewed the state as a creature of the bourgeois economic interest.
State is an instrument in the hands of bourgeoisie to dominate the proletariat.
The idea was expounded in The Communist Manifesto.
Karl Marx calls the state as the “Executive committee of bourgeoisie”.
State is an illegitimate institution.
State is irreconcilability of class interest.
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Critique of Liberal version of State
Reflects the class division in society
Two classes - haves and haves-not or the exploiter and exploited or dominant and dominated
Marxian concept is related to this division or class antagonism.
State represents the interests of the dominant class and is an instrument of domination and exploitation.
The class antagonism between haves and haves-not would reach to such a stage when the state would cease to exist or wither away.
It would establish the dictatorship of the Proletariat or working class.