The caesura effected by Marx has been more or less clearly acknowledged, more or less willingly accepted; it has even given rise to violent refutations and strenuous attempts at neutralization
on Marx as a writer who has transformed philosophy
‘dialectical materialism’, a relatively late term and one inspired by the use Engels had made of various of Marx’s formulations
Marx never used this term (he used "dialectical method"); neither did Engels ("materialist dialectic")
the philosophy of Marx – which I conceived as a problematic open to all kinds of transformations, reformulations and extrapolations, whose starting point is not the oblivion of Marx’s words and sentences but their intrinsic vacillation – and Marxism – an intellectual and institutional historical phenomenon, circumscribed in time by the end of the historical cycle of organization of the labour movement and class struggle
completely displacing the question by inventing the ‘aleatory materialism’ of his last texts
incorporating in the knowledge process, in a reflexive but open or even aporetic fashion, the very conflictuality that it sought to explain
