
State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?
Cosmopod
The Legal Political Spherical of Law and State in Capitalist Valorization
The legal political sphere of law and the state is required by the circulation of commodities itself as a necessary condition for its operation. As Marx points out, commodities cannot proceed to the market alone. They are exchanged by people who most recognize and relate to each other in legal terms as free and equal private owners. Market exchange thus presupposes a legal relationship that takes the form of a contract. The norms that constitute it must be all universal and character valid for all possible cases. It can't pertain only two specific cases as this would dissolve equality. In our interpretation, the genesis and conceptual development of the political sphere of the state would have two moments that correspond to certain determinations and functions which require