In so far as Marxism conceives the structuring of capitalist social relations as consequent upon the unfolding of some general laws of movement provided by the objective structure of society, the role of politics is both reduced and obscured. Hence, within Marxism politics is subsumed under the social and thus deprived of any specificity. However, as soon as we start deconstructing the underlying concep­tion of society as a structure in the traditional sense of a closed and centred totality, and thus start to conceive of the structuring of the social fabric in terms of the inscription of historical blocs through processes of Vergesellschaftung, politics is brought to the fore. The ungrounded constitution of societal systems articulating historical forms of state, economy and civil society leads on to the assertion of the primacy of politics.