抄録
In most of Marx' important works, the concept Assoziation apperes as the core concept of his theory of socialism, which he viewed as overcoming capitalism. This theory, one of the constituent parts of Marxism, has not been investigated enough, and therefore his conception of Assoziation, as well as those of Kontrolle and Verkehr, has not been analysed as such.
His heritage from French utopian sociolism can be found in this theory, but this was reconstructed in his historico-materialistic setting, Marx' Assoziation is relevant to Saint-Simon's conception rather than to Fourier's but Marx treated Assoziation as the socialist relation of production. By the socialist revolution Assoziation would arrive at its full realization.
But Marx did not consider it as possible only after revolution. The cooperation and labor movements in the capitalist world are its prototypes and the struggle for the workingmen's control of production will lead to the essential realization of it. I relate this development of Assoziation to the concept Verkehr, which had vanished midway and was thereafter revived in the organization theory of the International.
This is an attemt to establish group theory in Marxist sociology.
