| Summary: | The text seeks to provide insight into some of the basic theoretical
considerations and problems that the Marxist theory of the state has met. In
this sense, it does not pretend to provide an ultimate interpretation of the
relation of the state and capital, but to present to a reader a basic
argumentation of the main Marxist approaches and the general contribution of
the Marxist theory to this problem. In the first part the text highlights
some of the key issues that materialist theory of the state should try to
offer answers to, while the second part gives a review of a different
approaches to this topic. Presented approaches and arguments should be seen
more as an ideal-types, and they should introduce a reader to the general
directions and problems of the Marxist approach to the state and capital
relation.
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