Talk:Nicos Poulantzas

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"In particular, he focused on how an inherently divisive system such as capitalism could co-exist with the social stability necessary for it to reproduce itself - looking in particular to nationalism as a means to overcome the class divisions within capitalism."

I agree with everything up to the "looking in particular to nationalism"....Poulantzas doesn't have much in the way of discussion about nationalism. Perhaps, the contributor meant in terms of the role ideology plays in maintaining social cohesion, e.g. in Political Power and Social Classes, circa page 200, he he writes that ideology acts' as a 'social cement'. (it does bear a strong resemblance to Durkheim's account of religion.)

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I'd like to urge the writer to clear up somewhat the last paragraph. I changed 'them suppose to bracket' to 'that they suppose themselves to bracket' with the intention of using 'suppose' as a present tense verb to give the sense that these standpoints falsely (ideologically) imagine or suppose themselves to 'neutrally' 'bracket' the content matter of their theoretization when, in fact, their own ideological presuppositions are inseparable from their standpoint

also, there's an incomplete sentence earlier on in the same paragraph, which I am tempted to complete with 'globalization' but am not sure that would be correct to the earlier contributor's meaning

I have hardcopies of all of Poulantzas' works, but am not expert enough to really contribute, but would urge someone who is (such as the writer of the brilliant Louis Althusser article), to add to this Poulantzas article with a fuller explanation of his structural theory of the state, similarly to how the Althusser article discusses 'practices' 'wholes' 'totalities' and 'instances' which I believe Poulantzas to share

66.81.21.94 20:23, 26 November 2005 (UTC) (HAP)

Death
It may seem crass, but shouldn't a biography of a deceased person mention how they passed? Anyone seeking any form of personal biography of Poulantzas would assume that he vanished in a puff of smoke.

Steffaction (talk) 03:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know a lot about the circumstances of Poulantzas's suicide, and a moment of searching has not turned up any good sources, though some are surely out there. I'd prefer to wait until a well-referenced bio can be assembled, but anything factual is a welcome addition to the article.  Feel free to contribute! -- Rbellin|Talk 16:14, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Birthday
According to Bob Jessop's monograph from 1985, Poulantzas's birthday is on Sep 21st (pg. 6). I haven't found any reliable online sources indicating that Jessop is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.78.37.186 (talk) 13:07, 19 September 2011 (UTC)