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This article examines the economy and dialectics in Marxism. Marxism is a conception originally and essentially marked by a profound historisation of itself, of its own genesis, of its own roots. What is Karl Marx's Capital? It is the construction of an abstract or ideal scientific model: the scientific model of the bourgeois mode of production. Marx's Capital is constituted by systematic parts and historical parts, alternating in some form. The fundamental traits of the model of socio-economic formation are the following: The model has an interpretative function with respect to the concrete event in the sphere it demarcates and to which it refers. Another essential characteristic of every model of socio-economic formation in the Marxist sense is its historiographical capacity for periodisation. Third the model is constituted by the opposition between general laws of production and special laws--which integrate or modify the general laws--defining a determinate socio-economic formation. Marx's Capital is an interpretative scientific model of the bourgeois or capitalist economic order and, at the same time necessarily an illustration of its historical genesis. On the basis of the data Marx examined, this entails, at least indirectly, the fact that Capital also contains the interpretative model of the preceding socio-economic formation: the feudal. |
