The State


Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The State and Revolution
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992
Impersonal Power: History and Theory of the Bourgeois State (Historical Materialism)
State, Power, Socialism
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
State and Capital: A Marxist Debate
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism (Radical Thinkers)
Lineages of the Absolutist State
At the Margins of the Modern State: Critical Theory and Law
Global Insecurity: Futures of Global Chaos and Governance
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Communist Manifesto
Seneca
From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a single one which could tolerate the wise man or which the wise man could tolerate.
Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

Michel Foucault
Q: Doesn't this open up the possibility of overcoming the dualism of political struggles that eternally feed on the opposition between the state, on the one hand, and revolution, on the other? Doesn't it indicate a wider field of conflicts than that where the adversary is the state? Foucault: I would say that the state consists in the codification of a whole number of power relations that render its functioning possible, and that revolution is a different type of codification of the same relati ...more
Michel Foucault

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