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refreshing published in International. Orthodox Ponlantzas' of Marxist discourse.
Fascism and form Poulantzas tackled the the 'old' NICOS POULANTZAS, the Marxist political scientist, died in Paris on 3 October at the age of 43. A prolific writer, he wrote books on the capitalist state, fascism and Nazism, on the class formation of contemporary capitalism and, most recently, on socialist strategy in the advanced countries.
member of 'Eurocommunist' Greek Communist Party of the interior'. For most of the last decade he lived in France, where he was associated at various times with the disciples of Louis Althusser in the French Communist Party, and with the left-wing CERES group in the French feature of Poulantzas' approach to politics was his willingness to engage in discussion and debates with those who rejected his own 'left Eurocommunism' perspectives: as, for example, at the Marxist Symposium sponsored by Socialist Challenge in 1978, or in the exchange with Henri Weber earlier writings, such Political Power and Social Class, are couched orthodox Marxism Leninism. They have filled an important gap in Marxist theory and contain useful criticisms ot bourgeois political science. However they were not directed to resolving immediate questions of political strategy, and to some extent have been absorbed by a predominantly academic Dictatorship contains Germany and Italy, underlying the tragic failure of the workers movement in those countries to an anti-fascist workers united front.
With Classes in Contemporary Capitalism establishing the real social boundaries of the working class, differentiating the latter from and petty bourgeoisie.
Poulantzas insisted that only those who were involved in the sphere of material production
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