Abstract

Poulantzas is an essential author for the understanding of the category Modern State in the Marxist field. His work shows differences, recognized by the author himself, between his first theoretical productions and his last work – State, power, socialism. This article seeks to outline some criticisms of Poulantzas’ world figuration (ontology), exposed in the work Classes in Contemporary Capitalism. For that, it explores the possibilities of dialogue between this work and the critical theory of value, taking as reference, in particular, the reading of Marx’s theory of value made by Moishe Postone. The focus of criticism is the categories capital, State, social classes, and class struggle.

Keywords
Marx; Karl (1818-1883); Poulantzas (1936-1979); Postone (1942-2018)