Constantinos Kalogeropoulos

“an institution destined to reproduce class divisions is not, and can never be, a monolithic bloc without cracks, whose policy is established, as it were, in spite of its own contradictions.”
― Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism

“I shall begin by looking at the period of fascism, and use the opening provided by a quotation from Max Horkheimer, which forms the inscription in a recent German work, Faschismus und Kapitalismus. Horkheimer, reacting early against the whole conception of ‘totalitarianism’, wrote: ‘Anyone who does not wish to discuss capitalism should also stay silent on the subject of fascism.’ Strictly speaking, this is incorrect: it is he who does not wish to discuss imperialism who should stay silent on the subject of fascism.”
― Nicos Poulantzas, Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism

“If we confine ourselves to waiting, we will not get the 'great day' at all, but rather the tanks in the small hours of the morning.”
― Nicos Poulantzas, The Crisis of the Dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain

“Contradictions among the dominant classes and fractions - or in other words, the relationship of forces within the power bloc - are precisely what makes it necessary for the unity of the bloc to be organized by the State.”
― Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism