Write a review paper on the state frames “the political” from Modernity. What is the state? Is the entity that watches over the general welfare or a repressive entity, guaranteeing the political order? Does it harmonize social diversity or control class antagonisms? Is it instituted with the evolution and stability of capitalist societies, or is their existence autonomous? *Argue from the political theory of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels.*