ABSTRACT
In the latter half of the 1840’s Marx’s interest in mathematics was rekindled by the requirements of his investigations in the field of political economy. In his more or less complete mathematical manuscripts he investigated the dialectic, the being and the becoming, the nature and history, of the fundamental concepts of differential calculus. To go back to the “silence” around Marx’s mathematical manuscripts: intuitionist mathematics and Marx-studies could not (in spite of certain proximity of Marx’s position in mathematics with those of the intuitionists) join hands and study the mathematical legacy left by Marx. Emergence of the constructivist movement from within the intuitionist trend has perhaps created more favourable grounds. It appears now, that the task of situating Marx’s mathematical manuscripts in the history of ideas unfolds itself at many levels: at the level of completing text editing and publication and at the level of situating the emerging conception of Marx’ legacy in the history of scientific programmes.
