Table of Contents

Introduction


Part I - Once upon a time…

1. John Maynard Keynes and the capitalist theory of the state

2. Is there a Marxist doctrine of the state?


Part II – Having done with sovereignty

3. The end of sovereignty

4. Text by Esposito

5. Negri's reply to Esposito

6. The state of the state

7. On the concept of nation-state

8. Hegemony: Gramsci, Togliatti, Laclau


Part III. The extinction of the state

9. On revolution

10. Lenin: from theory to practice

11. Who are the communists?

12. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf


Notes

About the Author

Antonio Negri was formerly Professor of State Theory at the University of Padua.