The State and Justice: An Essay in Political Theory.

Abstract

Preface Introduction: can the state rule without justice? Part I. An Outline of a Materialist Political Theory: 1. A challenge to materialism 2. A framework for the state 3. The revolt against theory 4. State autonomy Part II. An Assessment of the Place of Justice in the State: 5. Ideal justice 6. Property and justice 7. Repression and radical justice 8. Justice and materialism 9. Equality and liberty 10. Class and the limits of control Part III. A Functional View of Political Institutions: 11. On functional explanation 12. Power and function 13. Democracy, its bright and dark sides 14. Welfare capitalism 15. The new mercantilism 16. Organized labor and the state Part IV. An Account of the Community of States: 17. Global justice 18. The imperial state 19. Peace through strength 20. The Soviet Union as other Part V. A Reflection on the Transition to a New Kind of State: 21. Liberal egalitarianism 22. Revolutionary anarchism 23. Democracy and the transition to socialism 24. The socialist state Conclusion: state class, and democracy Notes Index.