State Apparatus
'The State (a.k.a. State Apparatus) is a Mechanism of Reproduction used by the Accumulating Class to help them reproduce the labour requirements of The System." The state itself consists of State Power and the State Apparatus. The state apparatus consists of the Repressive State Apparatus and the Ideological State Apparatus.[1] [2]
Mechanisms of Reproduction
Mechanisms of Reproduction > State Apparatus, The State, Toxic Socialization
Elements of the State
State > Ruling Ideology, State Apparatus
Elements of the State Apparatus
State Apparatus > Ideological State Apparatus, Repressive State Apparatus
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Althusser
It is a "force of repressive execution and intervention ‘in the interests of the ruling classes’ in the class struggle conducted by the bourgeoisie and its allies against the proletariat...[3]
"The State is thus first of all what the Marxist classics have called the State Apparatus. This term means: not only the specialized apparatus (in the narrow sense) whose existence and necessity I have recognized in relation to the requirements of legal practice,i.e. the police, the courts, the prisons; but also the army, which (the proletariat has paid for this experience with its blood) intervenes directly as a supplementary repressive force in the last instance, when the police and its specialized auxiliary corps are ‘outrun by events’; and above this ensemble, the head of State, the government and the administration."[4]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Louis Althusser, On Ideology (New York: Verso, 2008).
- ↑ Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Monthly Review Press, 1971. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm.
- ↑ Louis Althusser, On Ideology (New York: Verso, 2008).
- ↑ Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” In Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Monthly Review Press, 1971. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm.
