Foundations of the Liberation Theory

In the previous chapters I have proposed a rereading of Marx’s and Engels’ theory of communism. In this chapter and the next I am going to present a rewriting. I will attempt a reconstruction which is not a simple reformulation of traditional thought in a new language. It is a selective reconstruction, in the sense that it selects a particular component of that thought, the one I judge to be the most valid, and sidesteps others I consider not so interesting. After all, it is not reasonable to expect complete consistency in a thought that evolved over two long lives of research and struggle and underwent the most disparate intellectual influences and political stimuli. In reality, it is possible to obtain consistency, but only if one is prepared to make extensive use of hermeneutic scissors. In fact, the only consistency possible is that deriving from an attempt to rebuild round a scientific core of that thought, expunging the components that contrast it.