Economic Restructuring, Class Reconfiguration and the Canadian State

Abstract

In the long run, the state can serve class hegemony by itself granting certain material demands of the popular masses-demands which, at the moment of their imposition, may assume a quite radical significance (free and universal public education, social security, unemployment benefits, etc.). Once the relationship of forces has changed, these popular gains can be progressively stripped of their initial content and character in a covert and mediate fashion.