Constantinos Kalogeropoulos

“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

“The (capitalist) State should not be regarded as an intrinsic entity: like 'capital', it is rather a relationship of forces, or more precisely the material condensation of such a relationship among classes and class fractions”
― Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism

“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

“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