Reflexões sobre estado e violência em “A montanha que devemos conquistar” de István Mészáros

Abstract

This paper’s essential purpose is to develop a critical analysis on the Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros’ book “The mountain we must conquer”. In that sense, we seek to evidence the central issue of that work which deals with questions concerning our most urgent contemporary contingences, especially the one about the limits of our sociometabolic order. According to the author, those are global contingences, with all their implications to the planet, although the global destructibility enforced by capital in a large scale represents a threat to all humanity. The ongoing destruction of nature makes clear that there is a limit for everything, and the capital’s absolute limits demonstrate that such form of sociometabolic existence is untenable. Here comes the function of State, which in its very structure, on the antagonistic material base of capital, has the duty of protect the existing sociometabolic order. Under such socio-historical conditions unleashed by the capital’s unalterable structural crises, State, says the author, affirms and imposes itself as the mountain we must conquer, in all its deeply embedded structural dimensions.