ABSTRACT
There have long been debates, as we all know, about the relationship of the individual states to the capitalists. Views range from those who emphasize the degree to which states are manipulated by capitalists to serve their individual and collective interests to those who emphasize the degree to which states are autonomous actors who deal with capitalists as one interest group among several or many. There has also been debate about the degree to which capitalists could escape control by the state machineries, and there are many who are arguing that their ability to do this has increased considerably in recent decades, with the onset of the transnational corporation and so-called globalization.
