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In his new book, Göran Therborn -author of the now standar 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 systems analysis -input mechanisms, processes of transformations, output flows- to advance a substantive Marxist analysis of State power and State apparatuses. His account of this is throughout comparative in the most far-reaching historical sense: its object is nothing less than the construction of a systematic typology of the differences between the feudal state, the capitalist state and the socialist state