The Sociology of Marx by Henri Lefebvre

Author:Henri Lefebvre [Lefebvre, Henri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-8041-5289-1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

The laws in question are none other than those governing exchange value, commodities. When the working class remains passive, they do operate with the force of natural laws. The proletariat has to intervene directly to interrupt the “ordinary run” of abstract things which impose their law. As a rule, the “authorities,” the state, step in to restore the ordinary run of things, the smooth working of the law, the ruling classes’ power of decision.

The frequently used term “tension” gives only a superficial and distorted image of this reality. What matters is the degree of tension, how dynamically charged it is. By itself the term mistakes effect for cause, and masks the realities underlying the observable phenomena. When this is used instead of such a term as “contradiction,” “conflict,” or “antagonism,” the point of view is deliberately reformist. Such reformism ignores periods of acute struggle, turns its back on the aspiration to transform existing social relations.

It may be useful to recall here that classes and class struggles can be studied at several levels:

[A.]

THE LEVEL OF PRODUCTIVE FORCES AND PRODUCTION RELATIONS

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