The State

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'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 the Repressive State Apparatus and the Ideological State Apparatus.[1]

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Elements of the State

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Notes

=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...[2]

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Footnotes

  1. Louis Althusser, On Ideology (New York: Verso, 2008).
  2. Louis Althusser, On Ideology (New York: Verso, 2008).