Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : state, space, world : Lefebvre and the survival of capitalism / Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden -- The state and society (1964) -- The withering away of the state : the sources of Marxist-Leninist state theory (1964) -- The state in the modern world (1975) -- Comments on a new state rorm (1979) -- Theoretical problems of autogestion (1966) -- "It is the world that has changed" : interview with autogestion et socialisme (1976) -- Reflections on the politics of space (1970) -- Space : social product and use value (1979) -- The worldwide and the planetary (1973) -- Space and mode of production (1980) -- Space and the state (1978) -- Review of Kostas Axelos's toward planetary thought (1965) -- The world according to Kostas Axelos (1986) -- The worldwide Experience (1978) -- Revolutions (1986)

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