El Estado de Engels es malo
El Estado de Engels es malo, tanto en teoría como en sus consecuencias prácticas. Ingo Elbe en su blog Communism ha escrito un breve artículo que lee la teoría del Estado del marximo tradicional, básicamente a partir de Engels. Su crítica es excelente. Cuestiona, por una parte, cierta tendencia de Engels a identificar el Estado capitalista con la clase burguesa, y por otra parte, destaca los momentos en que el amigo de Marx acierta, por ejemplo, con su idea de «ideeller Gesamtkapitalist» o capitalista total ideal como forma de pensar al Estado del orden del capital.
Sintetizo la crítica de Elbe con la siguiente cita:
«...in his deliberations in ‘The Origin of the Family’ Engels works with universal-historical categories into which modern designations like “public authority” are projected, and constantly assumes “direct relations of domination, immediate forms of class rule” in order to explain “the” state, which is consequentially understood as a mere instrument of the ruling class. From this content-fixated and universal-historical way of considering the state, it can be deduced that Engels loses sight of the actually interesting question, namely as to why the class content in capitalism takes on the specific form of public authority».
Para luego concluir con estas palabras con relación al «marxismo tradicional» que (¿muchos o pocos?) queremos superar:
«...traditional Marxism should be understood here rather as an elaboration, systematization and assumption of dominance of the ideological content of Marx’s work – within the framework of a reception by Engels and his epigones. Practical influence was almost exclusively allotted to these restricted and ideologized interpretations of Marx’s theory, as historical determinism or proletarian political economy».
Sintetizo la crítica de Elbe con la siguiente cita:
«...in his deliberations in ‘The Origin of the Family’ Engels works with universal-historical categories into which modern designations like “public authority” are projected, and constantly assumes “direct relations of domination, immediate forms of class rule” in order to explain “the” state, which is consequentially understood as a mere instrument of the ruling class. From this content-fixated and universal-historical way of considering the state, it can be deduced that Engels loses sight of the actually interesting question, namely as to why the class content in capitalism takes on the specific form of public authority».
Para luego concluir con estas palabras con relación al «marxismo tradicional» que (¿muchos o pocos?) queremos superar:
«...traditional Marxism should be understood here rather as an elaboration, systematization and assumption of dominance of the ideological content of Marx’s work – within the framework of a reception by Engels and his epigones. Practical influence was almost exclusively allotted to these restricted and ideologized interpretations of Marx’s theory, as historical determinism or proletarian political economy».
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