Class and overall social approach to the essence of the state.
Essence of the state is the main purpose of the state, the main core of this phenomenon. Essence of the state determines its content, purpose, function, i.e. power in the state and its identity.
There are the following approaches to the study of the essence of the state: the class, where the state is defined as the political organization of the economically dominant class and the general social, the state acts organization of political power, which creates the conditions for a compromise of interests of different classes and social groups. Class nature of the state means that a public authority, it is when the previous governments in the tribal system ceases to perform management functions. Socially stratified society, and the power, previously owned by all its members, takes on a political character and is, above all, in the interests of the privileged social groups and classes.Thus, the class nature of the state is reflected in the fact that it always exercises power in the interests of the privileged part of society. However, the state is obliged to take care not only of the propertied classes, but also on society as a whole. Since society is a single organism, respectively propertied classes can not exist without the dispossessed, without exploited groups, i.e. any State shall exercise general social functions and to act in the public interest. This is the general social nature of the state. Any state is not only a tool of oppression, domination machine of a class or social group, but also a means of uniting the whole of society, the way of integration. In the state are always combined narrow class or group interests of the ruling elite and the interests of the whole society. The ratio of these two essential aspects of the state in different historical conditions differently, gain of one party leads to a weakening of the other.
In the classic form of the class nature of the state is shown in the slave state where the slave is not a legal entity, and the object of the right, the thing owned slave. With the development of society from slavery to feudalism and capitalism has come to play an important role of general social side of the state. Particularly apparent general social nature of the state is manifested in modern Western society, such as high taxes on income entrepreneurs, government regulation of working conditions, the development of a wide variety of social programs.The increase in general social role of the state leads to a great extent to mitigate social conflicts, reduced need for measures to suppress class enemies increases the stability of society. Modern developed countries seek to increase the general social side for the stability of society. They also highlighted the religious, national and racial approaches to the essence of the state, when dominated by certain interests in the politics of any country. After all, the essence of the state has many aspects and is not limited to class and general social principles. Entity acts as a philosophical category. Entity - is central to the subject, what characterizes it throughout its existence.
Any State engaged in public affairs, the defense of public interest (e.g., crime, epidemics, natural disasters, etc.).
Any State shall be: 1) the general public, and 2) certain social forces. This ratio in different periods of history is different. Modern democratic state is, first of all, the whole society. It is a means resolving social conflicts and means of achieving social cohesion. Nature of the state - is the main purpose of the state, the main core of this phenomenon. Essence of the state determines its content, purpose, function, i.e. power in the state and its identity.
States define the essence of the class structure of society, the rule of various classes in the system of social relations, and therefore, the establishment of a state as an instrument of domination.
As is known, in an exploitative society nature of the state is due, above all, antagonistic contradictions between the economically dominant and exploited classes. Popular definition of the State, taken from the works of Lenin: «The state is a special organization of force, an organization of violence for the suppression of some class», or «The state is a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another».Thus, the essence of the defining characteristic of any acts without exception object, process or phenomenon and is associated with its purpose and the ability to meet the particular needs of man. Essence of the state lies in its social purpose, the regulation of social relations. The value of a state is its ability to guide social development.
Questions for the self-control:
1. What means the «summary of the state»?
2. How the representatives of Marxism have defined the «dictatorship of the proletariat»?
3. What means the «state government»?
4. What means the «social state»?
5. Account the well-known types of the civilizations.
Taskfor srs:
Please, analyze the research work of VI. Lenin «The state and the revolution».