Marxovo određenje politike
The Definition of Politics in Marx

Summary/Abstract: Marx ’s opus displays a reduced concept of politics, a result of the reduction of action to labour and of politics to domination. Marx ’s concept of labour signifies the fundamental destruction of practical, poietic and theoretical activity. Action as labour is given precedence over theory, practice and poiesis, and all these three notions are added into a single one-dimensional structure. Conceiting action as labour, Marx defines politics exclusively as domination. In defining politics within the scope of the commodity (capitalist) mode of production, he has before his eyes a teleological model of action which is manifested in the possibility of one class forcing the other to action aiming at realisation of its objectives, and which leads to reintegration in the historic revolutionary emancipation of classes, that is. to the abolition of politics in the development of human productive forces. The author outlines the process whereby the integration of labour and domination results in the abolition of politics. Marx's view of polities shares the prejudices of all modern political theory. According to this view, freedom is removed from the state-political sphere to the pre-state social sphere.

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