The definitive collection of the key writings of one of the most influential political theorists of the postwar epoch.

Nicos Poulantzas was one of the leading Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, developing seminal analyses of the state and social classes during the crisis of monopoly capitalism. This volume brings together a wide selection of Poulantzas' key writings in legal philosophy and political sociology. Articles include his early pieces on law, his studies of "hegemony," authoritarianism, and social classes, and his debate on the state with Ralph Miliband.