31 page booklet published in 1969 by Merit Publishers, New York. FOREWORD BY GEORGE NOVACK. Mandel writes on the origins and history of the state, the bourgeois state, and the proletariat in power.
Ernest Ezra Mandel was a German born Belgian-Jewish Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium and he became a member of the Fourth International during his youth in Antwerp. Mandel is considered to be populariser of marxism.
الكتاب مختصر كثيراً ولم يوضح حتى الملامح العامة للدولة وفق النظرية الماركسية.محتوى الكتاب لا يتناسب ابداً مع حجم العنوان. ربما يصلح للمبتدئين ، ولكنه أيضاً ناقص.