KARL MARX: İLKSEL BİRİKİM VE BONAPARTİZM
KARL MARX: PREVIOUS ACCUMULATION AND BONAPARTISM

Summary/Abstract: Marx’s analysis of capitalism is criticized for not taking the processes of the coercion into consideration. In this regard, Marx’s account of capitalism is associated with the “thesis of industrial society” according to which the rise of industry and the propagation of capitalistic relations would end the wars and bring peace to the Humanity. The study has three interrelated arguments. First is that the confusion about the role of coercion in Marx’s thought results from the misunderstanding of the Marx’s method. When Marx moves from the abstract models or mechanisms into the empirical facts, he shows that capitalism cannot exist without coercion. Second is that a non-economist, socio-political and empirical (re)reading of capitalism would reveal the dimension of coercion which is inherent to capitalism. The concepts of previous accumulation in Capital and Bonapartism in 18 Brumaire reveal that the liberal social order is not reproduced merely by and within the economic domain. Third, a capitalist social formation is created by the complex interaction of economic, political, social, ideological, cultural moments.

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