Marxist Conception of the State

Max Adler, born January 15, 1873 in Vienna, Austria, studied law at the University of Vienna. Renowned as a Neo-Kantian Marxist, he was active in Austrian Social Democracy as both a politician and theoretician until his death in 1937.Mark E. Blum, Ph.D. (1970), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on German and Austrian-German Marxists, including The Austro-Marxists 1890-1918, A Psychobiographical Study (University of Kentucky, 1985).

• PrefaceForewordA Scholarly Motto that Contributes to the Present Marxist CritiquePolitics and SociologyThe Sociological Unity of State and SocietyThe Development of the Concept of SocietyThe Further Development of the Concept of Society by MarxThe Formal Logic of Law in KelsenThe Essential in Marx 's Concept of the StateWhat Is Class?Class and PartyPolitical and Social DemocracyDemocracy and FreedomRevolution or Evolution?Democracy and Its OrganisationDictatorshipGovernment and AdministrationExcursus on AnarchismThe 'Marvel ' of Stateless OrganisationUtopianism in Marx and EngelsWhy We Are Not Understood!AfterwordBibiolographyIndex

“We can take seriously Blum’s claim that reading Adler’s Marxism offers a chance to approach with critical eyes existing Marxist currents.”—Joel Wendland-Liu, H-Net Reviews