Nicos Poulantzas

Nicos Poulantzas
Born	(1936-09-21)21 September 1936 Athens, Greece
Died	3 October 1979(1979-10-03) (aged 43) Paris, France
Education	School of Law, University of Athens (BA, 1957) University of Munich[1] University of Heidelberg[1] University of Paris (PhD, 1964)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Western Marxism/structural Marxism
Institutions	Paris 8 University
Main interests	Political philosophy
Notable ideas	The relative autonomy of the state from the capitalist class

Nicos Poulantzas (Greek: Νίκος Πουλαντζάς [ˈnikos pulanˈd͡zas]; 21 September 1936 – 3 October 1979) was a Greek-French Marxist political sociologist and philosopher. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading structural Marxist; while at first a Leninist, he eventually became a proponent of the "democratic road to socialism."^[2][3] He is best known for his theoretical work on the state, but he also offered Marxist contributions to the analysis of fascism, social class in the contemporary world, and the collapse of dictatorships in Southern Europe in the 1970s, such as Francisco Franco's rule in Spain, António de Oliveira Salazar's in Portugal, and Georgios Papadopoulos' in Greece.