The concept of politics within Marxism is highly ambiguous. Marx himself alternates between conceiving politics as the general affairs of the bourgeois state and as a certain developed form of class struggle. As such, politics often appears as an adjective in references to either political state apparatuses or political class struggles. In order to understand the significance of this conceptual ambiguity, we need briefly to recall the philosophical horizon within which Marxism and its concept of politics is inscribed.