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For Karl Marx, the state is fundamentally:Read the answer and worked solution →

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For Karl Marx, the state is fundamentally:

  1. an instrument of class domination
  2. a neutral arbiter of disputes
  3. the embodiment of reason
  4. a moral community
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Correct answer: A. an instrument of class domination

1. Marx's historical materialism roots politics in economic relations. 2. In capitalism the state serves bourgeois class interests. 3. A classless communist society would render the state obsolete. __Source: syllabus Political Theory Ch 1 — Marxist thought__

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