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Resenhista: Tony Mckenna

Someone once remarked, rather wryly, that Hegel is the doormat on which one wipes their feet before entering the house of Marx. In other words, it is important to relieve ourselves of the speculative, metaphysical and archaic baggage of the Hegelian system in order to be fully availed of a renewed and revolutionary Marxism. The view that the ‘mature’ Marx of Capital implies a complete and utter break with the ‘idealistic Hegelianism’ of his youth has always held a great deal of currency, especially with Marxist thinkers in the continental tradition, the chief of whom being the oblique French structuralist, Louis Althusser.