Series: Radical Thinkers Set 03

In his new book, Göran 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...