Marx in the light of Wittgenstein

Abstract

José Arthur Giannotti starts in this latest book from the current crisis of Marxism: the first pages refer to the relationship between Marx's theoretical work and the recent collapse of the so-called “socialist” regimes. Would the historical collapse of everything that was built in the name of Marx, he asks, be enough, as some want, to definitively refute the author of Capital's thoughts? To what extent could the fall of the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the bankruptcy of socialism, also be considered and accepted as a milestone in the practical refutation of Marxist theory? Giannotti answers these questions by going in the opposite direction to the journalistic fuss: if many questions, shadows and doubts are raised by these recent historical events, above all, due to the importance given by Marx himself to the need for practical proof of every theoretical truth, however, All of this that happened with the so-called “Marxist” regimes would not, according to Giannotti, be sufficient in itself to refute, in an absolute and definitive way, Marx’s work.