Marxova teorija robnog sistema
Marx's Theory of the Commodity System

Summary/Abstract: In considering Marx's critique of the bourgeois society and the bourgeois state attention should be focused on the point of departure and the method of this critique. Marx does not criticize directly either the bourgeois society or the bourgeois state but rather the fundamental structure of modern historical life, which manifests itself as their contradiction. This fundamental structure, for its part, can he analyzed in completely formal terms. Formal analysis is that true link between Hegel's deductions in Logic and Marx ’s analysis of commodity. For Marx, commodity form is a structure, a model corresponding to Hegel's logical idea. It permeates all particular spheres of the life of society, and thus also of bourgeois society and bourgeois state. Their essence can be understood only from the standpoint of commodity analysis. In this, commodity is not a sociological, let alone economic, concept. It is a systemic-theoretical concept, in the same manner as Hegel's logical idea. Commodity structure is not identical with economy, it formally differs from it both in essence and as a phenomenon. The critique of political economy is possible only from the standpoint of commodity analysis. As for the state, it is not just an instrument of class domination but also — in addition to bourgeois society — a manifestation of the contradictions produced by the capitalist mode of production of life. It is for this reason that Marx is not concerned with the abolition of the stale, or of bourgeois society, but only with the abolition of the commodity form, which produces the historically specific contradiction between the state and society.

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