Let us look in more historical detail at how Marxist accounts deal with these changes.

Only Marxist accounts fully tap this element of power.

No further testament is needed to illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of Marxist accounts of power and the state.

In this analysis Mills rejects both Marxist and pluralist accounts of power.

Habermas sought to develop an argument which introduced the individual actors within the political system to a Marxist account of the state.

Furthermore, as we have seen in the discussion of Marxist accounts, monocausal explanations do not provide particularly convincing arguments.

In the traditional Marxist account, exploitation and injustice occur because non-workers appropriate the value produced by the labour of workers.

There are two closely connected points to make at this stage about these Marxist accounts.

One approach, close to Marxist accounts, detects the dominance of big business and owners of capital.

This attack on the argument for what I have called the traditional Marxist account of the state begins by taking it on its own terms.