Authority, Power and the State, 1916–20

Neil Harding

Chapter 3 in Robertsonian Economics, 1978, pp 32-56 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1916 Bukharin produced a masterly article, ‘Towards a Theory of the Imperialist State’.1 In it he came to the conclusion that the modern bourgeois state had grown into a monstrous oppressive power, militarist in ethos, absolute in its pretensions, swallowing up all the vital forces of society and destroying all group and individual autonomy. In his nightmare vision the ‘mailed fist’, the ‘iron heel’ of the modern imperialist state impressed its ruthless stamp upon a cowed and servile society. The pattern of domination and subservience which the Marxist idea of the state encapsulated, had been brought to its perfected expression. The imperative for Marxists to concentrate all their attention on the destruction of this new Leviathan was, he believed, inescapable.

Keywords: Imperialist State; Direct Democracy; Coercive Power; Monopoly Capitalism; Poor Peasant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03239-6_5

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