What do Marx's texts, from his 1842 articles to his last thoughts, tell us about his conception of politics? Is there a Marxian political thought? While Marx didn't bequeath a finished political theory, he insisted on some key points, such as state oppression, its articulation with capitalist exploitation and the links between revolution, democracy and communism. This can be seen in his various writings, in his controversies with Hegel and the Young Hegelians, in the texts on revolutionary upheavals (1848, The Paris Commune), in the debates within the labor movement and in works on political economy. Hence the proposal here to follow his trajectories in numerous and different writings (books, articles, letters, comments on the sidelines), taking as guiding thread the Marxian project of another politics towards overcoming its state dimension.
Karl Marx; state; politics; democracy