What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?: State

What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism (Radical Thinkers)

In his new book, GÃ¶ran Therborn â€“ author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society â€“ looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis â€“ input mechanisms, processes of transformation, output flows â€“ 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 Therbornâ€™s enquiry in the â€˜Future as Historyâ€™. Written with lucidity and economy, What Does the Ruling Class Do when it Rules? represents a remarkable sociological and political synthesis.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2008-01-17
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781844672103

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2008-01-17
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781844672103

What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism (Radical Thinkers)

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