Jacques Derrida

Karl Marx

's tenor represents a dangerous proclivity towards the bombastic translations of problems of being and knowledge into strident moral dilemmas.

a thinker whose tenor representats a dangerous proclivity towards the bombastic translations of problems of being and knowledge into strident moral dilemmas.

is a product of his times, sharing on the one hand the Pessimism and historicization of the economy of Ricardo, and on the other the revolutionary spirit with his century, the unholy alliance between positivism and eschatology.

[B]esides sharing with the pessimist Ricardo the historicization of the economy, by dint of categories such as scarcity and production as well as the labor theory of value, Marx the revolutionary shared also with his century, as we have seen, the unholy alliance between positivism and eschatology. There are worse ways of grasping the philosophical gist of Marxism.

José Guilherme MerquiorThinkers

José Guilherme Merquior