Book on Marx's Theory of the State?

[Malesori]

I am looking for a good book of Marx's Theory of the State? Can anyone recommend one? Thanks.

[Emmeka]

I am looking for a good book of Marx's Theory of the State? Can anyone recommend one? Thanks.

That's pretty general. But you'd be surprised to learn there's very little. Most of what Marx wrote was about capitalism, not socialism. So there's next to nothing out there on Marx's theory of the state. The best I can offer up is A Critique of the Gotha Programme [1875], which is probably the most complete picture of Marx's idea of a socialist state we've got.

I suggest going to Lenin for a bit more details, The State and Revolution [1917] being the most obvious and most expansive work on the subject.

[Hit The North]

Check out this (http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/t.htm#state) on MIA. It provides links to Marx's, Engels' and Lenin's writing on the state.

I'd also recommend The State in Capitalist Society by Ralph Milibandwhich you can get for a snip here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-State-Capitalist-Society-Analysis/dp/0704330822/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1364661885&sr=8-2) .

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I quite like this text by Lenin: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/jul/11.htm

[Q]

Like others have said, there's not much. Marx was engaged in a project that "examine[s] the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the State, foreign trade, world market" (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm). Sadly he only finished the first part (of four planned) of Capital.