What sets Karl Marx apart from other theorists is that he gives primacy to the economic function, compared to other theorists who regard the various functional exigencies as more nearly cognate. Karl Marx's theory argued that the state should specialize in dealing with conflict situations, but these situations are of a particular kind--those arising from contradictions in the economic order and the class antagonisms arising from them--and the orientation of the state is subordinated to the interest of the dominant economic class. Furthermore, Marx posited that the paramount form of ownership is the ownership of a property that is Continue reading...
