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The short answer to the question in the title is yes. But the question needs to be unpacked in order to give a more considered answer. The longer answer in this paper, drawing on Miliband and engaging with Jessop, will also be (a more qualified) yes.
This chapter reworks and extends some arguments set out in Wetherly, 2005. I am grateful to Clyde Barrow and Peter Burnham for helpful comments on this paper in draft.
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Wetherly, P. (2008). Can Capitalists Use the State to Serve Their General Interests?. In: Wetherly, P., Barrow, C.W., Burnham, P. (eds) Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592704_6
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