Communism and Citizenship. Some Reflections on the Politics of Emancipation, from Nicos Poulantzas way the class struggle permeates the structure of the State, and of the contemporary crisis of the State and of state-practices. His analysis throws light on the formation of the « social national State » and on the crisis it is currently going through. It also enables us to address the question of a politics of emancipation, which should always associate the grammar of citizenship and the grammar of communism.