LEADER 02564cam a2200361 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20241004111110.0 008 080521s1980 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 2008273636 015 GBA858301 |2bnb 016 7 014497127 |2Uk 020 0860917258 020 0902308394 040 BTCTA |cBTCTA |dBAKER |dYDXCP |dZQP |dUKM |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 050 00 JC11 |b.T54 1980 082 04 320.1 100 1 Therborn, Göran, |d1941- 245 10 What does the ruling class do when it rules? : |bstate apparatuses and state power under feudalism, capitalism and socialism / |cGöran Therborn. 260 London ;New York : |bVerso, |c2008. 300 290 p. ; |c20 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index (p. [285]-290). 520 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 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.-publisher 650 0 State, The. 650 0 Political science. 650 0 Political sociology. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6320_100000000000000_THE |70 |8GEN |9165078OSA |bOSA |d2024-09-17 |eOSA |o320.1 THE |r2024-09-17 |w2024-09-17 |yBK |zDonation of Elizabeth Teague. |cOSA Repository 920 01 JXd8yqXk 992 01 320_100000000000000_THE |bWXZ_YZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_6IL 966 |cIn the Research Room