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It is perhaps time to summarize the argument. I began with the proposition that, in the terms of historical materialism, the state should be located within the production relations (the base), along with other production relations like capital itself. The state ‘relation’ pre-dates capitalism, and brings with it motives of survival, expansion and aggrandisement. For a time, state and capital maintained a contingent relationship of mutual advantage — for as long as the development of capitalism was synonymous with that of the national state.
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Lockwood, D. (2000). Conclusion. In: The Destruction of the Soviet Union. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981566_11
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