A Marxist Critique of the Tinubu State in Nigeria (2023 -2025)
Keywords:
Withering away of the state, the Tinubu state, dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, military dictatorship and the Nigerian leftAbstract
The class role which the State plays in the capitalist society had been mostly captured by Marxists in their analysis of the State. Non-Marxists, like Anarchists, to a significant extent, also share in the harsh views. After almost two centuries that these views were canvassed and after a century of the practical implementation of these views or theories about the state, it has become necessary to re-visit the theories and the critical views to see how relevant they are to modern bourgeois capitalist state in third world countries like Nigeria as constituted by the Tinubu State. This research work adopted the doctrinal method. It sought to capture the analysis of Marxism on the concept of the withering away of the State as presented originally by Marx and Engels through its implementation under Lenin and Stalin in Russia and adapt the principles to the analysis of the Nigerian bourgeois state under President Tinubu as a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It was found that the theories are applicable and that the State acts in the interest of the politically dominant class in society which in turn represents the interest of the economically dominant group in Nigeria.
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