Beyond the State?: A Reappraisal of Dominant Theories and Socialist Strategies (Contemporary Social Theory)

This series aims to create a forum for debate between different theoretical and philosophical traditions in the social sciences. As weIl as covering broad schools of thought, the series will also concentrate upon the work of particular thinkers whose ideas have had a major impact on social science (these books appear under the sub-series tide of 'Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences'). The series is not limited to abstract theoretical discussion -it will also include more substantive work on contemporary capitalism, the state, politics and other subject areas. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Identifying the Problems....Pages 1-21 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Against the ‘Holy Trinity’ of ‘The State’, ‘Civil Society’ and ‘The Economy’....Pages 25-33 From ‘Civil Society’ to ‘World Capitalism’: The Reduction of State Institutions to Non-Economic ‘Superstructures’....Pages 34-55 Electoral Struggles: The Limits of ‘Political Business Cycle’ and ‘Class-Theoretical’ Analyses....Pages 56-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Introducing the Concepts of Electoral, Production, Credit and Food Production Processes....Pages 69-81 Overcoming the Dichotomy of ‘The State’ and ‘Civil Society’: The Importance of Electoral Processes....Pages 82-106 Production Processes: Beyond the Separation of ‘The State’ from ‘The Economy’....Pages 107-128 From Abundance to Scarcity: Contradictions within Credit Processes....Pages 129-151 The Industrialisation of Food Production Processes: A Neglected Revolution....Pages 152-170 One ‘World-System’ or ‘Organised Anarchy’: The Crises of Desynchronisation....Pages 171-188 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Between Reform and Revolution: ‘Alternative Programmes’ and their Failure to Confront the Desynchronisation of Processes....Pages 191-222 A Socialist Stocktaking: Against Stateless Socialism and Market Socialism....Pages 223-250 The Impossibility of Socialist Pluralism without State Institutions....Pages 251-277 Conclusion....Pages 279-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-322 Boris Frankel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.