The author establishes how different
variants of Marxism conceptualise the structure-agency
relation. He distinguishes three groups of theories: First,
there are the dichotomous approaches of Marxism-Leninism
and Guevarism. They undercut any meaningful determination
of the social because they rely exclusively on one side of
the relation in question. Second, there is the dualism of
the Althusser School and Open Marxism respectively. Both
approaches conceive of the structure-agency relation ...

In The Thatcherite Offensive, Alexander Gallas provides a class-centred political analysis of Thatcherism. Drawing upon Greek state theorist Nicos Poulantzas, he challenges both mainstream and critical accounts of British politics in the 1980s and 90s. He shows that Thatcherism's sucess and novelty, indeed its unity as a political project, lay in the fact that the Thatcher governments profoundly shifted class relations in Britain in favour of capital and restructured the institutions underpinning class domination. According to Gallas, it was an integral part of the Thatcherite project...

Drawing upon Greek state-theorist Nicos Poulantzas, Gallas challenges both mainstream and critical accounts of British politics in the 1980s and 90s. He shows that Thatcherism's success and novelty, indeed its unity as a political project, lay in the fact that the Thatcher governments profoundly shifted class relations in Britain in favor of capital and restructured the institutions underpinning class domination.