State, Politics, and Social Classes

Armando Boito is Professor of Political Science at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. He is editor of the Brazilian journal Crítica Marxista. Among other books, he has published Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil:Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism (2021).

• Chapter 1: Preface.- Part 1: State, politics, social classes and historical change.- Chapter 2. Introduction.- Chapter 3. The capitalist state at the center: A Critique of Michel Foucault's concept of power.- Chapter 4. The place of State in the Marxist theory of history.- Chapter 5. State and transition to capitalism: Feudalism, Absolutism and Bourgeois political revolution.- Chapter 6. State and transition to socialism: Was the Paris Commune a workers' power?.- Chapter 7. The concept of revolutionary crisis: 1789: France in 1789.- Chapter 8. The Political scene and class interests in capitalist society: Marx's analysis.- Part 2: Politics and economy in the formation of the working classes.- Chapter 9. Pre-capitalism, capitalism and worker resistance: Elements for a theory of union action.- Chapter 10. The (difficult) formation of the working class.- Chapter 11. The constitution of the proletariat into a class in the Manifesto of the Communist Party: Polemicizing with Some Classic Interpretations.- Chapter 12. The exhaustion of the 20th century revolutionary cycle.- Chapter 13. Middle class and unionism.- Chapter 14. Citizenship and social classes.