ABSTRACT
An attempt has been made in this study to show the importance of state intervention to processes of rural class formation in Ghana. Recent studies by authors of both the neo-classical and marxist schools of thought have proved to be very fruitful in explaining the increasing state intervention in the domestic communities investigated and in analysing its concomitant effect on rural class formation in Ghana. However, our research into ‘the state and rural class formation in Ghana’ has also brought out some of the shortcomings of the above studies.
