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The Authoritarian State
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1973
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Regime AnalysisEconomic HistorySocial SciencesDemocracyPolitical EconomyPolitical SystemBourgeois SocietyGeopoliticsAuthoritarian StatePublic PolicyEconomicsClass ConflictMarxismAuthoritarianismHistorical PredictionsEl DoradoWorld Economic HistoryBusinessPolitical TransformationPolitical ScienceWorld-systems TheorySocialism
Abstract The historical predictions on the fate of bourgeois society have been confirmed. In the system of the free market economy, which pushed men to labor-saving discoveries and finally subsumed them in a global mathematical formula, its specific offspring, machines, have become means of destruction not merely in the literal sense: they have made not work but the workers superfluous. The bourgeoisie has been decimated, and the majority of members have lost their independence; where they have not been thrown into the ranks of the proletariat, or more commonly into the masses of unemployed, they have become dependents of the big concerns or the state. The El Dorado of bourgeois existence, the sphere of circulation, is being liquidated.