3 good questions on "Rival theories of the state - The capitalist state"
The state is part of a superstructure that is determined or conditioned by the economic 'base', which can be seen as the real foundation of social life.
Two theories:
1. State is dependent on its economically dominant class (in capitalism: the bourgeoisie).--> oppression
2. Autonomy of the state is only relative, in that the state appears to mediate between conflicting classes, and so maintains the class system itself in existence. --> class antagonism enhanced.
- State arises out of, and reflects, capitalist society.
But state can be used constructively during the transition from capitalism to communism. In the end state would wither away. Since the state emerges out of the class system, once the class system has been abolished, the state loses its reason for existence.
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