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State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?

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The Importance of State Interventionism in the Development of the Economy

Since social capital is fragmented into rival individual capitals with different interests, the state is needed to establish its unity as a class. Under normal conditions, this implies meeting some of the immediate social and political interests of the working class. The notion that state interventionism effectively represents a general demand of capitalist development has not been noted since the 1980s at the beginning of the neoliberal phase. In always, the political option is the form of management adopted for public services,. And criteria for social distribution of the tax burden necessary for their financing.

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