The Canadian State

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"Whiteside and McBride are among Canada's leading experts on state-capital relations, and they have assembled an outstanding set of two generations of theorists and analysts of the Canadian state. The authors recognize the centrality of settler colonialism as a structural logic animating and shaping the state; chapters on today's dominant sectors of Canadian capital shed light on the organization of the Canadian state today. The collection as a whole forms both a tour-de-force survey of existing recent literature and an important fount of contemporary political economic theory in its own right." -- Justin Paulson, director, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University "The Canadian State is a vital, contemporary intervention in Marxist state theory with a focus on Canadian political economy. Whiteside and McBride have compiled a wide-ranging collection of essays that offer new understandings of the interconnections between state power and capital accumulation in the contemporary context. Deeply grounded in the historical development of capitalism in Canada, the text sheds light on the lineages of colonialism, racism, and patriarchy that have long been advanced and reproduced by the Canadian state. Attuned to contemporary processes such as the politics of care, environmental crisis, global trade, and financialization, The Canadian State is essential reading for those seeking to understand state power in the 21st century." -- Mark P. Thomas, professor, Department of Sociology, York University