¿Qué hacer con Marx?

Abstract

This article analyzes some fundamental texts and ideas of Marx in order to think about their contemporary relevance. Marxism has to get rid of the base-superstructure schema, and recognize that the theory of value is too speculative. It should also rethink the different meanings of what Marx called "science", and have in mind the Hegelian legacy in Marx's thought. In historical terms, it should not forget the context in which Marx lived (first industrialization) and the kind of revolution that he invoked in his writings. It is also useful to read Das Kapital as nothing more (and nothing less) than a language game, and to go against the conception of history of the introduction to the Grundrisse. We have to read Marx with all his contradictions.