Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to offer an overview of some of the philosophical debates launched by the rediscovery of Marx’s critique of political economy in the political context of the 1960s and 1970s. In order to do so, I establish a dialogue between three readings of Capital, which are still influential today: the Critical Theory-oriented reading developed by some of Adorno’s students such as Helmut Reichelt and Hans-Georg Backaus in Germany, the political reading promoted by Mario Tronti in Italy and the epistemological reading elaborated by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar in France. My claim is that these readings can be reconstructed as different answers to a same problem: that of social transformation, looked at from the point of view of its objective conditions of (im)possibility by Reichelt and Backhaus, from the point of view of its subjective conditions of effectivity by Tronti, and from the point of view of its structural conditions of emergence and development by Althusser and Balibar.
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