Conference paper

LEGITIMATION OF POLITICAL COMMUNITY: NEW WAYS

Davor Rodin ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The author analyzes two famous critiques of the bourgeois state: Marx’s thesis on the withering away of the state as an instrument of force of the economically dominant bourgeois class which, by means of the quasi-neutral state as the higher third instance controls the class antagonisms whose disappearance will make the state as an instrument of repression obsolete; and Carl Schmitt’s thesis that the state will become unnecessary in the world in which there are no longer any enemies, only offenders who violate humanistic norms and human rights.

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Hrčak ID:

27137

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/27137

Publication date:

28.7.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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