Forms of Ownership before Capitalism as the Marx's Work "Grundrisse"

Abstract

The author analyses those chapters of the Marx's work Grundrisse, in which Marx deals vvith the forms of production and ownership before capitalism and which he wrote in December 1857 and January 1858. It's the only Marx's work, in which he presents his concepts of this problem in a complex way. The work itself is a link between the »early« and »grovvn up« Marx. He distinguishes the asiatic, the antique and the germanic form; each one he devides into the primary and secondary period. Only the primary period is progressive. In the secundary period one group of people subjugates the other group.