The Bourgeois State in Post-Colonial Social Formations

The Bourgeois State in Post-Colonial Social Formations Bharat Patankar Gail Omvedt Two important changes have occurred since the end of the second world war which serve to characterise a different phase of imperialism. These are, first, a change in the character of the State in most third world countries from a colonial state to a politically independent bourgeois State and, second, a change in the mechanisms through which the imperialist system dominates the third world.