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“The post-colonial state was thought of an entity that stood outside and above society as an autonomous agency.” Explain.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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The statement summarises the neo-Marxist view of the 1970s, given classic form by Hamza Alavi in "The State in Post-Colonial Societies: Pakistan and Bangladesh" (New Left Review, 1972). It reworks Karl Marx's idea of Bonapartism in The Eighteenth Brumaire (1852), where a state balancing between classes appears to rise above all of them. The words…

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  • Why the state appeared to stand above society
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