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Abstract

For a long time, the study of the State has been marked by a monolithic understanding, since it has been understood as the only possibility to avoid the battle of all against all, the supreme expression of society or an agreement of one class for the oppression of another. Under this premise, Nicos Poulantzas will develop a critical proposal in the conception and approach to state architecture, understanding it as a space of constant dispute and crystallization of class conflict, aiming to understand it as a complex whole that never manages to belong entirely to one sector. These observations are of transcendental importance, since those who aspire to understand institutionalism from the Social Sciences will find a complex proposal for the study of the State. It is in this logic that this paper intends to review Poulantzas' State, Power and Socialism, considering that this text makes a fundamental theoretical contribution to the study of political science. By reviewing some approaches, we aim to provide some conceptual orientations of the Greek-French author so that they can serve to deepen a theoretical project of great relevance in times when political disaffection and struggles for the State are more present than ever.