The Frustration of Karl Marx

With this book the reader is invited to understand the participation of civil society in the political life of the state in the light of Marx''s thought. Efforts are expanded to demonstrate that the Mozambican state is characterized by social and political exclusion and by a participation that is reduced to simple voting. Thus it is urgent to analyze with the reader to what extent the theoretical resources of Marx''s thought can be used to reflect the citizen''s participation in the political life of the state. In this book it is interesting to analyze the origin of the State and of Civil Society and finally a reflection on the applicability of Marx''s thought in Mozambique. From the analyses made it was concluded that the State according to Marx is nothing more than an executive committee for the interests and businesses of the bourgeoisie. From this concept of the state it follows that the participation of civil society in the political life of the state is in a state conditioned by the bourgeois class an essentially limited phenomenon.