...involved in the game, nevertheless also 4 Marx and Engels (1848) put their view succinctly as follows: 'The executive of the modern State is but a committee...managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.' offers a view of collective action in which the citizenry's interests are shanghaied by special interests....

...of the exploited class. Marx and Engels (1968: 37) summed up this view in the 'Communist Manifesto': 'the executive of the modern state is but a committee...managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie'. The implication is that the state exists for the protection of the interests of the ruling class and...

...bourgeoisie increased, so did its power. This power ultimately became so saturated, according to Marx, that "the executive of the modern State is but a committee...managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" (Communist Manifesto, 161). Though the consolidation of power suggests the possibility of tyranny and...