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first race I attended something about Nicos Poulantzas. It's one of those names that, after five years of college, even though you hold back fondly little of it. Of their scholarship, just retain almost nothing of his life I rescued a story following a story my father told me the other day.

It was a Greco-French political sociologist and Marxist Theory dedicated to the state. I remember very vaguely studied International Relations and career first, something better, some notes on it (not written by him) about his criticism of structuralist Marxism.

disciple of Althusser and influenced by Gramsci, was a fervent Marxist, and was active in Greek inside pc in his younger years underground. His activism earned him exile to Paris, where he was professor of political science for several years.

Poulantzas was an optimist. Defended against the orthodox conceptions of Marxism that the bourgeois state and its institutions could be useful to the working class, criticizing the anti-statist essentialism. This position and his years in France, led him to positions Eurocommunists to mid 70's, with the consequent assumption and defense of representative democracy as a model of political organization.

the late 70's, was elected councilman for a Parisian district. For the first time in his life, with more than sixty years, departed from Poulantzas college, reading and writing, and poured its activity in practice of what he had advocated from the faculty and publications.

stories intellectuals involved in politics tend to end fatal, and this is not least: in 1979 committed suicide by jumping from the floor 22 of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris, where he lived.

has the police report that when they found virtually dismembered on the floor, still clutching their books.