In his new book, Goran Therborn - author of the now standard
comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism,
Science, Class and Society - looks at successive state structures
in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal
categories of modern system analysis - input mechanisms, processes
of transformation, output flows - to advance a substantive Marxist
analysis of state power and state apparatuses. His account of these
is comparative in the most far-reaching historical sense: its
object is nothing less than the construction of systematic typology
of the differences between the feudal state, the capitalist state
and the socialist state. Therborn ranges from the monarchies of
mediaeval Europe through the bourgeois democracies of the west in
the 20th century to the contemporary regimes in Russia, Eastern
Europe and China. The book ends with a major analytic survey of the
strategies of working class parties for socialism, from the Second
International to the Comintern to Eurocommunism, that applies the
structural findings of Therborn's enquiry in the 'Future as
History'. Written with lucidity and economy, What Does the Ruling
Class Do when it Rules? represents a remarkable sociological and
political synthesis.
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