ABSTRACT
The theory of social innovation clarifies the starting points and strategies of reciprocity in equality by focusing on micro-processes and their relation to different levels of social structures. This picture is too simplistic as long as relations of power and domination are not examined in particular. The state plays a central role in upholding such relations and expressing them at the same time. To the theory of the state we now turn, to enrich the elements of a de-growth strategy further.
