Abstract
The reading of the Marxian critique of statehood has been conducted in much of the specialized literature under the assumption of the identity: of the Marxian work itself and of the Marxist thinking. Opposing this reading tradition, the article explores the differences between the Marxian and Leninian critiques of statehood, arguing that these differences derive fundamentally from the way in which state criticism and the problematization of economic forms of capital cooperation are articulated with each other. In conclusion, it is highlighted the importance of the Marxian approach, which, in the context of the resistance to the “pillage” of the state-public, invites to analyze the regimes of practices that structure the private and public forms of production or regulation of “goods” and “services”, as well as to produce “self-working” and “self-governing” technologies in the multiplication of associative forms founded on the “reabsorption” of the powers subsumed by the economic and political mechanisms of capital.
Keywords:
State; Political power; Social revolution; Lenin; Marx