Marxists (Revolutionary) Doctrinal Concepts of the State Power Mechanism

The article provides a structural retrospective analysis of Marxism, its main directions in the period from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century. Five stages of Marxism evolution are distinguished according to the views transformation criterion on the state power mechanism. Starting from the «birth» of Marxism foundations, its spread and domination, further hegemony and immunity to discrediting and declining, revisionism. The movement of scientifi c thought about the state power mechanism transformation, the ideological basis of this phenomenon and related state institutions is shown. The involved complex of hermeneutic methods, taking into account the political situation and relations between various groups of Marxists (left, centrist, radical, etc.), made it possible to assess the general direction of development of approaches to the state power mechanism and the changing boundaries of political and legal regulation. As a result, a methodological system was created, which served as a scientific (instrumental) basis for the transformation of the dominant Soviet socialist ideology of the formation and functioning of the state power mechanism, real practice of the power resources distribution, the content of party program documents, changes in the political regime in the USSR. Assessing the unrealized potential of the Marxism ideology, the authors came to the conclusion about its relevance, applicability for state-legal and economic-political reality in the context of globalization, informatization and digitalization of society. As a result, the author's instrumental (mechanistic) vision of the state power mechanism was formulated, that is both free from many shortcomings of the "classical" approach to the state institutions and adapted to solve modern problems of public administration.