Ereditare Marx. Jacques Derrida e gli spettri della rivoluzione

In Marx’s dead hour, Derrida initiates a confrontation between deconstruction and communism not to depoliticise, but rather to repoliticises its revolutionary injunction. Marx’s spirit is inhabited by numerous specters, which haunt both his works and us. From Marx, Derrida inherits a critique of nationalism and a messianic affirmation. Marxism links itself for the first time to a form of international organisation. However, Derrida deconstructs Marxist ontology, according to which the Communist International would be the real presence of the red spectrum – thus its end –, and proposes a hauntology, which breaks the logic of being and non-being and the teleological temporality, since the new International must remain to come as a real otherness. Derrida replaces Marx’s materialist messianism with a messianic linked to a materialism without substance, that of the khôra – a receptacle open to welcoming the other.