Raju J Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class theory, the capitalist state, and international development. His recent books include Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World. He is associated with a number of scholarly journals: Dialectical Anthropology; Race, Class and Corporate Power; Critical Sociology; Human Geography; and Science and Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis.

1. Introduction, 2. A critical review of Marxist state theory post Marx, 3. The state and class relations, 4. The state's internal relation with capitalism and capitalists, 5. The state, capitalist commodity relations, and labour power, 6. The state and capitalist property relations, 7. The state, and capitalist production, exploitation, accumulation, and crisis, 8. The state, and the agency of capitalists and state actors, 9. The state and the agency of the working class, 10. State Forms: Geographic and bureaucratic, 11. Capitalism, imperialism, and the state in the global periphery