Siyaves Azeri

Abstract

Marx’s method in Capital and some of his formulations in the Grundrisse serve for a reconstructing of the true logic of the constitution of the capitalist state. What is the human essence of the state and why does this essence assume this particular form? Contrary to communist society that Marx defines as a society based on the free association of free individualities, the state is the objective/external means of compulsive association of the doubly “free” sellers of labour-power and the owners of the means of production—the negative and positive personifications of capital as a social relation—and thus the form of existence of the state of unfreedom. Rather than being an expression of social equilibrium, the state is the incarnation of the permanent state of crisis of capitalist society; the state is the prerequisite and the consequence of the necessity and the political form of objectification of continuous constitution of the separation of immediate producers from the means of production.

Keywords

State, Right, Law, Order, Strong State, Capital, Class

From: Critique 2020 48 (2-3)

Editor: Wang Yi