
State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?
Cosmopod
Marx's Concept of Capital
Marx understands the CMP as an organic system in which different elements that compose it are involved and, synchronously, presuppose one another. This articulated system of elements is not limited to the economic structure of society but also includes the legal political sphere of the state and law. To understand this theoretical development, we first examine the connection between market and capital that defines the economic structure as developed in Marx. In a second step, we derive the legalpolitical sphere from said structure, demonstrating a necessary connection between capital and state. Finally, we highlight the materialization of the relationship between capital andstate at the world level, indicated but not deeply explored in Marx.