The State as an institution. A reading of Marx’s “historical works”

Abstract

It is well known enough to be revisited here that, although it was part of Marx's intellectual project to subject the “State” to a more systematic treatment – ​​as attested, for example, by his letters to F. Lassalle (of February 22, 1858) , to F. Engels (on April 2, 1858) and to J. Weydemeyer (on February 1, 1859), written quite early, even before the publication, in Berlin, of For the Critique of Political Economy –, that never has taken place. Likewise, the study on “capital” itself (and, within it, the chapter on “classes”) remained incomplete.