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The End of SovereigntyAuthor(s): Antonio Negri, Ed Emery\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509544295, 978-1509544295\nSynopsis\nThis book brings together Antonio Negris critical writings on the nature and form of the modern state. The central theme that runs through these writings is our need to be done with the sovereign state that is, with the particular form of political power that the capitalist organization of bourgeois society has imposed upon us. Negri seeks to show how the sovereign bourgeois state built in the course of modernity has now become a weapon in the hands of a declining ruling class, a class sometimes exhausted in its institutional expressions and sometimes frenetic, zombie-like and parafascist. In arguing that the despotic power of the state should be abolished, Negri distances himself from some other left-wing thinkers who, erroneously in his view, have come to see the state as an unavoid.