An often-remarked absence in Karl Marx’s legacy is the failure to write a comprehensive critique of the state as a medium of class domination. A book on the state was part of his six-book plan for Capital, which guided his work between 1857 and 1863. According to this plan, a text on the state would have followed books on capital, wage labour, and landed property. This corresponds to the method of political economy, namely, a movement ‘from the simple [concepts], such as labour, division of labour, need, exchange-value … to the State, international exchange, and world market’. The state is a concrete-complex relational ensemble that can be comprehended theoretically only through prior, more abstract-simple conceptual analysis. Marx’s efforts to explore the topics of the first three books (albeit with a different organization) meant that he focused more on the economic than political dynamic of accumulation in his unfinished critique of political economy. Moreover, given the virtual absence of the proposed book on labour, he focused more on capital, neglecting the working class as an active economic, let alone, political subject.