Talk:Nicos Poulantzas
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"In particular, he focused on how an inherently divisive system such as capitalism could co-exist with the social stability necessary for it to reproduce itself - looking in particular to nationalism as a means to overcome the class divisions within capitalism."
I agree with everything up to the "looking in particular to nationalism"....Poulantzas doesn't have much in the way of discussion about nationalism. Perhaps, the contributor meant in terms of the role ideology plays in maintaining social cohesion, e.g. in Political Power and Social Classes, circa page 200, he he writes that ideology acts' as a 'social cement'. (it does bear a strong resemblance to Durkheim's account of religion.)
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I'd like to urge the writer to clear up somewhat the last paragraph. I changed 'them suppose to bracket' to 'that they suppose themselves to bracket' with the intention of using 'suppose' as a present tense verb to give the sense that these standpoints falsely (ideologically) imagine or suppose themselves to 'neutrally' 'bracket' the content matter of their theoretization when, in fact, their own ideological presuppositions are inseparable from their standpoint
also, there's an incomplete sentence earlier on in the same paragraph, which I am tempted to complete with 'globalization' but am not sure that would be correct to the earlier contributor's meaning
I have hardcopies of all of Poulantzas' works, but am not expert enough to really contribute, but would urge someone who is (such as the writer of the brilliant Louis Althusser article), to add to this Poulantzas article with a fuller explanation of his structural theory of the state, similarly to how the Althusser article discusses 'practices' 'wholes' 'totalities' and 'instances' which I believe Poulantzas to share
66.81.21.94 20:23, 26 November 2005 (UTC) (HAP)
