Keywords
Commodity form
Political scene
Political practice
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Abstract
This articles estates that Marx’s historical works allows us to uphold that the political dimension is neither a “field” (of social struggles for strategic positions) nor a “system” (of functionally integrated institutions) and not even a “juridical-political structure”
(apprehensible through its class effects in the social world). The political dimension of society may be conceived, by classical Marxism, as a “form” whose properties are similar to that of the commodity form. Consequently, practical politics can neither be apprehended nor analyzed as a social appearance, which makes the expression “political scene” very unsuitable to describe the way Marx understands the functioning of the political world.
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