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The application of Critical Theory to the state—examining how state power is organized, how it operates, and how it reproduces social hierarchies. Critical Theory of State asks: What is the state, really? Whose interests does it serve? How does it concentrate power and enforce order? How do states claim legitimacy, and who benefits from that claim? Drawing on Marx, Weber, Foucault, and contemporary state theory, it insists that the state is never just a neutral arbiter—it's a site of struggle, a concentration of power, a tool of domination and (potentially) liberation. Understanding the state requires understanding its politics.
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