The Peculiarity of Capitalism: The Necessity for the Disappearance of the Working Class Struggle Leads to Socialism (Model VP)

Abstract

Now, when we know a little bit about the way the activity of the class of disposers of coercion influences the motion of socio-economic formation, it is possible to pose anew the problem we could not solve on the grounds of purely economistic models that were developed in Section B. I mean the problem of the peculiarity of capitalism. It was insoluble, since the purely economic variables could not explain from whence the effective demand for the increasing accumulation arises in capitalist society (Chapter 7). Eliminating different possibilities we came to the conclusion that it is the state which is the factor creating such a demand. It forced us to a closer consideration of what the “state” is and to revealing the limitation of Marx’s basic discoveries (Section C). Accounting for the influence of the class of disposers of the repressive forces upon the regularities of the movement of socio-economic formation, considered in the preceding chapter, allows us to pose the problem of the peculiarities of capitalism again.