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Theory of the Crisis and the Problem of Constitution

1975; Telos; Volume: 1975; Issue: 26 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3817/1275026143

1940-459X

Giacomo Marramao,

Political Economy and Marxism

Abstract It is still widely held that the theory of the crisis and collapse of the capitalist system is inherited from the positivist deformation of the “Marxism of the Second International,” and that it thus implies ideological support for reformist politics. Ten years ago, Raniero Panzieri wrote: “As a matter of fact, Marxist thought since Marx has recognized the appearance of a ‘turn’ in the system with the development of monopoly capitalism and of imperialism around the 1870s (which today appears to us as a transitional period in relation to the ‘turn’ that began in the 1930s and is now being completed).