La crítica marxiana al derecho y la conexión Babeuf: ¿Un problema de historia intelectual o de conceptos?

Book Chapter

Authorship

ROCCA, FACUNDO CARLOS

Date

2018

Publishing House and Editing Place

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales

Book

Pensar lo social. Pluralismo teórico en América Latina (pp. 111-130)
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales

ISBN

978-987-42-6759-7

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The modern Declarations of Rights are a founding milestone of the political logic of modern society. Marx has pointed out, in On the Jewish Question, their relative inability to dissolve in their universal terms the modern forms of particularity: religion as a private difference and the individualistic material interest. However this critique has other significant precursors, among who the early critique of modern rights by Babeuf and the Equals, usually considered proto-communists, stands out.... The modern Declarations of Rights are a founding milestone of the political logic of modern society. Marx has pointed out, in On the Jewish Question, their relative inability to dissolve in their universal terms the modern forms of particularity: religion as a private difference and the individualistic material interest. However this critique has other significant precursors, among who the early critique of modern rights by Babeuf and the Equals, usually considered proto-communists, stands out. Firstly, the paper will explore the terms of their early critique of modern rights’ formalism which would leave concrete inequalities untouched, as well as their demand for real equality. Secondly, a possible intellectual history reconstruction of the Babeuf-Marx connection will be lay out, pointing out some clues around the circulation of Babeuf’s ideas. Finally, we will question the usefulness of such an approach, proposing instead the hypothesis of a conceptual perspective that thinks the similarities of both critiques as resulting from the logic of the same object they confront , rather from a direct influence.