ABSTRACT
If a comparison between Marx and Walras may bring to light certain proximities or oppositions, it is clear that the communism of the first bore an importance unlike the liberal socialism of the other and that, in this field of history, they don’t belong to the same category. With his academic philosophical culture, a knowledge of history limited to a few great works of vulgarized histories, Walras did not fight on equal terms with Marx. Moreover, while history was central to the first, the essential was evidently elsewhere to the other. However, the pregnancy of the Zeitgeist on these two intellectual heirs of the Enlightenment and Revolution is considerable and makes connections possible.
