![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In face of the crisis of capitalist society and the profound contradictions that traverse it, an author overhastily dismissed after 1989 is once more being taken up and interrogated. The rediscovery of Marx is based on his continuing capacity to explain the present indeed, his thought remains an indispensable instrument with which to understand and transform it. Pronounced dead at the end of the twentieth century, Marx has now suddenly reappeared on the stage of history: there is a rekindling of interest in his thought, and the dust is ever more frequently brushed off his books in the libraries of Europe, the United States and Japan. A new need develops to refer to his work, whether the critique of political economy or the formulations on alienation or the brilliant pages of political polemic, and it continues to exercise an irresistible fascination on both followers and opponents. Yet there has always been a ‘return to Marx’. Owing to theoretical disputes or political events, interest in Marx’s work has never been consistent and has experienced indisputable periods of decline.įrom the ‘crisis of Marxism’ to the dissolution of the Second International, from the discussions about the limits of the theory of surplus value to the tragedy of Soviet communism, criticism of the ideas of Marx always seemed to point beyond the conceptual horizon of Marxism. ![]()
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