Sobre los orígenes comunales de la Crítica de la economía política de Karl Marx

Abstract

Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Heinrich Marx, it is pertinent to return to the rational core of his great theoretical project, which is not historical materialism or dialectical materialism, but the Critique of Political Economy, as the author himself termed it. In this work, we aim to begin the reconstruction of the genesis of this project, both logically and historically, by examining Marx's 1842 journalistic manuscripts on the theft of firewood and the criminalization of peasants in the Moselle Valley. This is done in polemical engagement with the conventional Marxism of Armando Bartra, arguing that Marx's Critique of Political Economy was from its inception developed as an alliance between the young Marx and the "stubborn community" of poor peasant.