A key text by Max Adler, one of the leading theorists of Austromarxism, on the fundamental question of the nature of the state

Max Adler, born January 15, 1873 in Vienna, Austria, studied law at the University of Vienna. Renowned as a Neo-Kantian Marxist, he was active in Austrian Social Democracy as both a politician and theoretician until his death in 1937.

Mark E. Blum, Ph.D. (1970), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on German and Austrian-German Marxists, including The Austro-Marxists 1890-1918, A Psychobiographical Study (University of Kentucky, 1985).

Preface

Foreword

A Scholarly Motto that Contributes to the Present Marxist Critique

Politics and Sociology

The Sociological Unity of State and Society

The Development of the Concept of Society

The Further Development of the Concept of Society by Marx

The Formal Logic of Law in Kelsen

The Essential in Marx 's Concept of the State

What Is Class?

Class and Party

Political and Social Democracy

Democracy and Freedom

Revolution or Evolution?

Democracy and Its Organisation

Dictatorship

Government and Administration

Excursus on Anarchism

The 'Marvel ' of Stateless Organisation

Utopianism in Marx and Engels

Why We Are Not Understood!

Afterword

Bibiolography

Index