ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to develop some ideas which lead to an understanding of the mechanisms behind planning and the set of state activities that help the organization of space. The different institutions and departments of the state manifest great contradictions. To be able to understand state intervention in the organization of space and, through it, to distinguish the class interests which are represented, it is necessary to tackle the question of political representation and mediation of interests, in particular the role of the political parties. The chapter concentrates on a concept central to bourgeois ideology, namely the concept of the 'free individual' and the objective economic base from which it arises. The actual expressions of institutionalised ideologies are the different types of social movements, political parties, trade unions, pressure groups, and so on. To be able to transform social relations, it is necessary that a majority of the people understand social relations in terms of class-relations.
