Property in modern marxist thought

The article is a critical study of property concepts present in modern Marxist Literature. Subjection of the present day Marxist theory of property to legal thought is one of the reasons of its weakness. Treating property as a legal relation is one of the extreme manifestations of this interdependence. Immanent features of legal notions render them useless in a study of economic property relations. Legal and subjectively idealistic contents are often included in a notion. of possession understood by many authors as a main indicator of property. For Marx, possession was a specific type of property based on a dorect contact with an object of property. Approach to property as to disposal blurs a distinction between labor relations and property relations and leads to many cognitive and ideological deceptions. Other popular definition of property as apropriation is either of tautological character or reduces property to production and labor. The most accurate concept of property, in the author's opinion, is handled as u s i n g (profiting). Creating solid grounds for empirical examination of property, the concept opens an avenue to solve anothern dillemma of modern economy: whether to treat property as a self- contained and basic labor relation or approach it as a whole of production relations.Digitalizacja i deponowanie archiwalnych zeszytów RPEiS sfinansowane przez MNiSW w ramach realizacji umowy nr 541/P-DUN/201