"It is often remarked that critical - and especially Marxist - state theory began to lose its central place in the study of comparative politics in the 1980s. Ironically, this shift occurred just as neoliberal policies were transforming the social form and spatial scales of the state, radically...

Contents: 1. Production modes, Marx's method and the feasible revolution -- 2. The coopererative firm as an alternative to the capital-owned business enterprise -- 3. A few advantages of economic democracy -- 4. Marx, Marxism and the cooperative movement -- 5. Recent criticisms of the labour...