ABSTRACT
Would Marx have written Das Kapital had it not been for the insurrectional and organisational context of the times in which he lived? The simplicity of such a question suggests that the project to ‘rebuild the left’ will not emerge from the brilliant reflections of enlightened intellectuals working calmly in their offices, but will, instead, be fuelled by the sound and fury of social struggles that find an echo in certain intellectual spheres that support them. In fact, today, left criticism is not lacking in contact with the militant world, a nebulous configuration that encompasses not only committed researchers (who often have no partisan filiations but are nevertheless often in touch with anti-capitalist organisations), but also militant publishers and professional militants (attached to associations or unions) involved in intellectual struggles against neoliberalism.
