Critique and Complex System in the Late Marx in His Confrontation with Hegel

Abstract

The numerous studies on Marx’s theory of social formation often find an interpretive horizon in Marx’s relationship with Hegel. This article focuses on understanding the account of political economy as a critical endeavour and on examining this account through particular interpretations of the systematic construction of categories. Contemporary interpreters of Marx continue to engage in extensive debates over the possibility of reading a critical methodology in his writings on the nature of capital, and over whether the texts that address the judgment of the economy as such may contribute to a specific epistemology. To this end, the concepts of complexity and dialectics are analysed.