Question

Ideological development of north indian revolution

Answer 1

Critics of the Marxian concept of the state as an instrument of the ruling class regard it as too simplistic and lacking in universal validity. Thus the modern democratic state, presidential or parliamentary, based on varying measures of free enterprise, can hardly be called the handmaiden of the capitalist class, whose will is often thwarted by trade unions, political parties depending on the votes of industrial workers, rural and urban poor and the middle classes whose interests are often in conflict with those of factory owners and business leaders and, more recently, the civil society. While this is true, it is also a fact that a state represents a certain ideological consensus which was perhaps first cogently articulated in its fundamentals, by the theorists of social contract, Hobbes, locke and Rousseau