For Marx, surplus-value extraction reveals the state’s hidden foundation
Evidence
Here it is the relations of “domination and servitude,” defined far more specifically in terms of the way surplus value is extracted in capitalist production, which “reveals the innermost secret, the hidden foundation of the entire social edifice”; hence, its political forms, and thus the forms of the state itself. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 492
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to Marx’s theory of surplus value and how it grounds the political form of the state — the heart of Marxist political economy Hall brings to reading strategy.
Related
- Marx’s later economic determinism centers on surplus extraction, not bare economic structure. (similarity 0.91)
- The form of surplus extraction determines political and state forms. (similarity 0.89)
- Marx’s absolute-to-relative surplus value shift anchors superstructure theory concretely (similarity 0.83)