Authoritarian Liberalism And The Political Thought Of Nicos Poulantzas: Restructuring The Form Of The State As The Challenge Of Authoritarian Statism

Resumo

The conceptual focus of our paper is the role and contours of the theoretical category of the state in relation to authoritarianism and the articulation of democracy and liberalism under a capitalist economy. In particular, we refer to Nicos Poulantzas’ conceptualisation of “authoritarian statism” and the “decline of democracy.” In his last book, State, Power, Socialism, published in 1978, Poulantzas argues for a shift in the form of statehood in Western Europe and the United States of America, one that is going towards authoritarian statism. The transnationalisation of the economy and the state form entails changes in the labour process, the deterioration of working-class conditions, and a de-linking between democratisation and labour. At the same time, there is a growing instability of the elites and their reconfiguration at all scales. The decline of the state does not entail a structural crisis but rather a sharpening of elements of the political crisis that calls for the transformation of the role of the state itself.

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