Man, Political Man, Political Theory
Abstract
One of the central issues in political theory has remained the issue of political power, and the state has normally been treated as the point where this power resided. It was the Marxist theory which, for the first time, decisively broke away from this tradition and shifted the focus of political analysis from the state to property or ‘the means of production’. Whatever the implications of this theoretical shift in the residence of political power, its net effect, in the context of this essay, was the following: it merely transferred the focus of political examination from one institutional point to another.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Marxism and Critical Theory
Political Economy and Marxism
Philosophy and Social Theory
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 225–239
- Publication date
- 19 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter