I touch very briefly on four specific points. First, the question of the precipitous decline, or even structural impossibility, of a 'national bourgeoisie' capable of retaining a relatively autonomous basis of capital accumulation, and of the new resulting internal equilibria in the dominant power blocks. Second, the growing fragmentation of the labouring population into numerous, mobile, differentiated and largely antagonistic fractions, with all that this implies for the process of dislocation and disorganisation of traditional forms of class struggle. Third, the new functions of the capitalist state which, in its increasingly authoritarian form, assumes overall reproductive responsibility by means of a growing regulation of the deregulation process. This is generating an unprecedented fusion, or confusion, of the state's economic and ideological functions. Fourth, the new developing forms of articulation between the various state apparatuses and the professional political personnel occupying their summits, on the one hand, and the representatives of big capital on the other
