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Political Power and Social Classes
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Index
abstract, abstract-formal, 13, 15, 17, 22; real, real-concrete, 12–13, 22, 145–6, 196
Adler, Max, 179
agriculture, 74, 161, 168–72, 174, 182, 231
alienation, 124, 195–7, 280, 343
alliance, 83, 97, 165n, 167, 175, 234n, 236, 240–5, 251–2
Althusser, Louis, 14n, 18n, 40–1, 87, 305–06
America, 153, 272, 320–1
American path, 170n, 231
anarcho-syndicalism, 206
Anderson, Perry, 82n, 200
anthropologism, 12, 64–6, 109, 221
apparatus(es), 43, 115–17, 164, 165n, 171–3, 177–8, 182–3, 191–2, 216, 249–250, 271, 272, 308–09, 311, 325–30, 332–59
Apter, David, 47n, 224n
Aristotle, 217
army, 164
articulation, 15–17, 29, 49, 50, 69–70, 71, 87–93, 129, 150, 157, 209, 234, 273, 274
authoritarianism, 290–4, 312
authority, 105–06, 146–7, 165, 222
autonomy, relative, 29, 161n, 163, 193, 217, 256, 259, 261–2, 263–74, 282, 284–5, 286, 294–303, 319–20, 348; specific, 41, 46–7, 57, 72, 127, 129, 135, 136, 139, 143, 148, 150, 151–2, 203, 214, 227, 237
Babeuf, François-Noël, 179n
Balandier, Georges, 52n, 224n
Balibar, Étienne, 87–9
base, 17, 50, 156n, 196, 281
Bettelheim, Charles, 149–50
Bismarckism, 80–1, 144–5, 155, 167n, 170, 172, 174, 180–1, 249, 260, 2...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Translation editor’s note
- Introduction
- I. General Questions
- II. The Capitalist State
- III. Fundamental Characteristics of the Capitalist State
- IV. The Unity of Power and the Relative Autonomy of the Capitalist State
- V. Bureaucracy and Elites
- Notes
- Index
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