Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (born 1936)

Nicos Poulantzas

Marxist political sociologist and philosopher (1936–1979)

Nicos Poulantzas 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."…