Capitalism, State and Policy: notes on Chasin and Gramsci from Carlos Nelson Coutinho

Abstract

This article is based on the understanding that the theoretical construction of Marx is a materialist ontology of the social being and that the categories capital, State and politics must be treated as ontological categories. It is based on Chasin and Coutinho, who place on the theoretical and practical horizon a surpassing of capitalist logic and its specific sociability. It highlights in Chasin the unveiling of the ontonegativity of politics and the category of metapolitcs. It criticizes Coutinho‘s reading of Gramsci, which is marked by an ontopositive concept of politics and some conclusions about the process of social transformation and the perennation of politics. Finally, it indicates a possible convergence between the two approaches.