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  2. Marx's theory of the state - Wikipedia

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    The political state everywhere needs the guarantee of spheres lying outside it. [1] He as yet was saying nothing about the abolition of private property, does not express a developed theory of class, and "the solution [he offers] to the problem of the state/civil society separation is a purely political solution, namely universal suffrage ...

  3. High and low politics - Wikipedia

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    In political science (and within the discipline of international relations in particular), the concept high politics covers all matters that are vital to the very survival of the state: namely national and international security concerns. It is often used in opposition to low politics, which often designates economic, cultural, or social affairs.

  4. Withering away of the state - Wikipedia

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    Withering away of the state is a Marxist concept coined by Friedrich Engels referring to the idea that, with the realization of socialism, the state will eventually become obsolete and cease to exist as society will be able to govern itself without the state and its coercive enforcement of the law.

  5. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Wikipedia

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    The title page of the book, 1790, copy D, held by the Library of Congress [1]. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake.It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs.

  6. State-building - Wikipedia

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    The driver can be a state personnel, a dominant class, or a charismatic individual. Without these drivers, the political and military machine of the state has no direction to follow, and therefore, without this direction, war and the increased resources extracted from war can not be used for growth. [9]

  7. Political Order and Political Decay - Wikipedia

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    Fukuyama describes the early U.S. having a weak state, with goods and offices handed out based on corruption and patrimony, [2] partially because democracy entrenched itself without a strong state with capacity to rule effectively. [3] Before the Pendleton Act of 1883, for example, all political offices were allocated on the basis of patronage. [5]

  8. The End of History and the Last Man - Wikipedia

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    The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of ...

  9. States' rights - Wikipedia

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    Resolved, That the union of these States rests on the equality of rights and privileges among its members, and that it is especially the duty of the Senate, which represents the States in their sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts to discriminate either in relation to person or property, so as, in the Territories—which are the common ...