LEO PANITCH is a member of the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. The Canadian State is a powerful collection of essays. Leo Panitch's theme essay, dealing with the theories of recent neo-Marxist thinkers such as O'Connor, Mili- band, and Poulantzas on the nature and role of the state and sketching their rele- vance to Canada, sets the tone and interpretation of the whole work, which thus has a rare unity and cohesion. Reg Whitaker and Qarth Stevenson provide papers offer- ing profound analyses of the history and functioning of the federalized state in Can- ada. The twelve further contributors develop this theme, dealing with such topics as the aspirations of those behind the governments of Alberta and Quebec, relations between the government elites and Canada's classes and ethnic groups, the manage- ment of the economy through budgets and welfare state policies, and the manage- ment of culture through education, the arts, and citizen participation. Together they illuminate various aspects of the way the bourgeois state organizes our society, above all, for the accumulation of capital and the legitimation of capitalism and, at times, uses coercion to these ends. The work as a whole brings together Canada's economics and politics in a new and penetrating way. EDITED BY LEO PANITCH The Canadian state: political economy and political power UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 1977 Toronto and Buffalo Reprinted 1983, 1985 Reprinted in 2018 Printed in Canada Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: The Canadian state ISBN 0-8020-2285-5 bd. ISBN 978-0-8020-6322-9 (paper) l. Canada- Politics and government -Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Canada - Economic policy - Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Socialism in Canada - Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Panitch, Leo, 1945- JL65 1977.c35 320.9'71 c77-001588-3 .