The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 109)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 109)

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contradiction of society with itself."
The State as Marx puts it is "the official resume of society.""/ For
him, "the political State, within the limits of its form, expresses sub spe-
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cie rie publicae all the social conflicts, needs and interests."
Not unlike Engels and Marx, Lenin also characterizes the political (in-
cluding the State and political class struggle) as "a concentrated expression
of economics." The State, for him, appears to be the place in which we can
decipher the unity of structures and from which we can derive our knowledge
of this unity:
"The only field in which this knowledge can be gained is that
consituted by the relation of all the classes and strata of
the population to the State and the government; i.e., the
field constituted by the relation of all classes to each other."
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In this sense, the State is the "official representative" of society,
as Engler calls it. Representative, here, is interpreted by Poulantzas in
the sense of the place where the unity of a formation is deciphered; still in
this sense, the State is also "the place where the ruptural situation (situa-
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tion de rupture) of this unity can be deciphered."
It is in this sense that the State is a relation, not a thing; more pre-
cisely, a condensed relation. This relation between the State and the articu-
lation which specifies a formation originates, according to Poulantzas, pre-
cisely in the fact that the State has a function of "order" in political class
conflicts, and also of global order as the cohesive factor of unity. The
State prevents the political class conflict from breaking out in so far as
this conflict reflects the unity of a formation; the State, in other words,
prevents classes and "society" from consuming themselves. That is, it prevents
the social formation from bursting apart.
Viewed dialectically, the relation of the "base" to the "superstructure",

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