Nicos Poulantzas wrote Marxist political theory about the state, class power and authoritarianism. Political Power and Social Classes examines how capitalist states organise and reproduce class relations without simply acting as direct tools of one ruling group. State, Power, Socialism develops his later thinking about democratic socialism and the institutional structure of the state, while Fascism and Dictatorship analyses fascist movements through class and political crisis. Poulantzas's writing is dense, structural and highly theoretical. Useful discovery terms include Marxist state theory, political sociology and twentieth-century debates about democracy, fascism and socialist strategy. Read more Less