some books,did you read?

[sunfarstar]

（Parliamentary Socialism），（The State in Capitalist Society），（Marxism and Politics），（Capitalist Democracy in Britain），（Class Power and State Power），（Divided Societies），（Socialism for a Sceptical Age）

[F9]

Ehmmm?Im moving this in Literature&Films but i have the suspicion that i will shortly get this in trash as there is already a "what are you reading thread".
And anw, i cant remember all the books i read.:blink:
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[New Tet]

Great list! Thanks for sharing.

[makesi]

（Parliamentary Socialism），（The State in Capitalist Society），（Marxism and Politics），（Capitalist Democracy in Britain），（Class Power and State Power），（Divided Societies），（Socialism for a Sceptical Age）


I read Miliband's "The State in Capitalist Society" and "Socialism for a Sceptical Age" about 5-6 years ago. I remember the first one being better; it was fairly packed with information about the makeup of state bureaucracies in France, England, and the US. As I remember it, he generally builds his argument around class continuities between the state bureaucratic and, mainly, upper civil service groups and the bourgeoise/upper bourgeoise class. I know that Poulantzas criticized him for supposedly making a functionalist argument, reducing the nature and operations of the state to its role in the maintenance of capitalism but, unfortunately, I don't recall the thread of his argument well enough to trace out the particular analytical components of it. He touched on a wide variety of social phenomena related to the subject however--reproduction of classes, the class nature of the bureaucracy, class ideology and the bureaucracy/civil service, etc.

The other book was shorter and the main thing that I remember taking of use from it was some fairly orthodox marxist-leninist arguments and considerations about leadership and the relationship between intellectuals and the socialist movement, viz. he sees them as historically important and continuing to be so.