The New Leviathan and the Struggle for Democratic Rights

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Abstract
A peculiar helplessness in defining the contemporary meaning of the “state” is related to the fact that the state apparatus tends to become increasingly omnipresent, comprehensive, and at the same time stronger, more rigid, repressive and directly involved in social conflicts. Evidently, the nature of the political structure that has emerged in the 20th century in developed bourgeois societies can no longer be adequately grasped with the usual categories of political analysis, nor with the traditional tools of the Marxian theory of state. This has its reasons. The modern leviathan can be understood only in terms of the truly revolutionary transformations that bourgeois society has undergone in the course of its ongoing development under conditions of accelerating internationalization of production.

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