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Marxist Theory of the State: Stadiality and Material Grounds for the Change of Social Organization

https://doi.org/10.21686/2411-118X-2024-1-26-33

Abstract

The Marxist theory of the state is able to reliably explain the foundations of social development, offering as a model the formation approach, which is a logical system for describing the stadiality of the development of history and explaining such a complex phenomenon as the state in its entirety. The Marxist theory of the state has been enriched somewhere, and where it was subjected to revision, which led in some cases to the rejection of its fundamental assumptions. Today there is a need to summarize the key points of the Marxist theory of the state in its orthodox way, that is, in the way it is presented in the works of the founders – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Relying on fundamental theoretical works and using dialectical-materialist methodology, as well as using system-structural and historical method, the article investigates the conditionality of transitions from formation to formation, reveals the special character of capitalism as a stage of social development, which distinguishes it from previous formations, refutes the strict schematism in the change of formations, erroneously attributed to the founders of Marxism. The results of the study include conclusions about the basic elements of the Marxist theory of the state, generalized preconditions characterizing the emergence in the capitalist mode of production of elements that represent progressive forms of economic communication of the following formations, the economic social formation as a whole is considered, conclusions are drawn about the nature of the socialist formation and its internal tendencies

About the Author

A. A. Bazilev
Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Kutafin Moscow State Law University”; Federal State Autonomous Institution “Research Institute “Voskhod”
Russian Federation

Postgraduate Student of the Institute of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies of Moscow State Law University (MSAL); Deputy Head of the Department of Legal Support of Projects and Development of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Federal State Autonomous Institution “Research Institute “Voskhod”.

9, B. 1, Sadovo-Kudrinskaya Str., Moscow, 125993; 85 Udaltsova Str., Moscow, 119607



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Bazilev A.A. Marxist Theory of the State: Stadiality and Material Grounds for the Change of Social Organization. ECONOMICS. LAW. SOCIETY. 2024;9(1):26-33. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2411-118X-2024-1-26-33

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