Marx & Weber on Power of the State

A key component of this discussion is the idea of a nation-state. The United States is an example of a nation-state. It has a dominant culture and language, which forms the nation, and it has a single political entity, the federal government. marxism and Weberism both operate in the political-economic sphere. The actions and consequences of the government and the economy take place in the arena of the nation-state.

The Marxists who follow the teachings of the Communist Manifesto take a strictly economic approach to a theory of state. This approach reduces everything down to a basic economic relationship. The state is nothing more than "a committee for organizing the affairs of the bourgeoisie". The basic analogy behind this is that the state preserves the relations of social domination. Economism does not specify which relation

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corporations. Marx was opposed to the working class identifying with the interests of their own nation-state when the state's objective in encouraging this identification was the continued oppression of the worker. Marx was not opposed to the self-determination of nations. He made the distinction between nations based on political states and nations with a common ethnicity or language. Marx was particularly concerned with the right of colonial nations to separate from the oppressive, exploitative, mother-nation. This self-determination is almost impossible when the imperialist design is economic in nature not territorial. The Marxist theory which best describes the current operating position of the United States political economy is economism. This explains the expansion of the United States' place in the world economy and the state of affairs domestically. Domestically the major corporations control the government through special interest lobbies, and contributions to their choice of politicians. The economy of the United States is determined by the growth of these corporations and the growth of the domestic economy. The state can influence the policies of business but business also affects the policies of the gov
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