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Evaluate Marx’s instrumentalist approach to the State.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Theories of the State

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Instrumentalism treats the state as a tool in the hands of the economically dominant class. Its canonical line is from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto (1848): "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." The approach explains how wealth captures office;…

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  • The Instrumentalist Case
  • Miliband's Restatement
  • What It Gets Right
  • Where It Fails
  • Conclusion
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