Talk:Elmar Altvater

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Altvater argues that the state performs four general maintenance functions particular capitalists cannot undertake: providing an initial legal system with property and contract law, regulating the class struggle between workers and owners of capital, enforcing terms of international trade and market expansion through military presence, and providing infrastructure.

In the actual article (https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/altvater/1972/probsstate.htm), Altvater writes:

What, then, are the functions which a state in a capitalist society performs, that capital units cannot perform? There are essentially four areas in which the state is primarily active:

1) the creation of the general material conditions of production ("infrastructure");

2) the determination and safeguarding of the general legal system in which the relationship of the legal subjects in capitalist society occur;

3) the regulation of the conflict between wage labor and capital, and if necessary, political oppression of the working class - not only by political and military means;

4) assurance and expansion of the total national capital on the capitalist world market.

So infrastructure is point 1, and not the last point as the article summary implies. Also, he states one of the functions of the state is to ensure the reproduction of its national capital in the world market which is somewhat different from the summary "enforcing terms of international trade and market expansion through military presence). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.54.53.75 (talk) 01:51, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New literature on Altvater[edit]

For more information, please read: Birgit Mahnkopf, Alles ändern, damit die Welt bleibt, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, May 2019, p. 98-111. --Schuetz13 (talk) 07:33, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]