Filozofski preduvjeti za čitanje Marxa
Philosophical Prerequisites for the Reading of Marx

Summary/Abstract: The critique of political economy, in a Marxist sense, establishes its province of study outside economy and criticizes, or rather explains and comprehends, economy from that vantage point. It is necessary to possess absolute and radical knowledge with regard to reality in itself in order to be able to understand how, on the basis of such reality, something like economic reality is constituted and brought about, something like the science of this reality, such as political economy. The necessary philosophical prerequisite for the understanding of so-called economic writings of Marx is not to be found outside his thinking, and neither may it be arbitrarily introduced into it. It is his thinking itself, in its initial development, in the act upon which it is founded, which laid the foundation of its subsequent analyses. The originality of Marx ’s thinking can be observed in three categoric assertions: (a) that there exists a radical difference between praxis and theory and the former is irreducible; (b) that this difference, that is, the immanence of praxis, explains why something like a specific economic reality was to develop in human experience; (c) lastly, that production comprises opposition and separation between nature and the activity of making objects of labour. The philosophy of reality as praxis is the prerequisite not only of history but of the entire economic analysis. Praxis in itself has no economic implications. How, then, did economic reality appear in human history, and when?

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