Preface
Introduction: can the state rule without justice?
Part I. An Outline of a Materialist Political Theory: 1. A challenge to materialism
2. A framework for the state
3. The revolt against theory
4. State autonomy
Part II. An Assessment of the Place of Justice in the State: 5. Ideal justice
6. Property and justice
7. Repression and radical justice
8. Justice and materialism
9. Equality and liberty
10. Class and the limits of control
Part III. A Functional View of Political Institutions: 11. On functional explanation
12. Power and function
13. Democracy, its bright and dark sides
14. Welfare capitalism
15. The new mercantilism
16. Organized labor and the state
Part IV. An Account of the Community of States: 17. Global justice
18. The imperial state
19. Peace through strength
20. The Soviet Union as other
Part V. A Reflection on the Transition to a New Kind of State: 21. Liberal egalitarianism
22. Revolutionary anarchism
23. Democracy and the transition to socialism
24. The socialist state
Conclusion: state class, and democracy
Notes
Index.
